Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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History intruded into this case. Two of the key figures in the trial, Sheriff Johnson and Frank Jones, had been deputies under Screws, and at least one of them participated in the murder. And it was in this courtroom that two years ago a white man and his wife and a Negro friend were dragged over benches and out of the courtroom, as the same judge sat passively...
...times too much a tortured cry from a tortured soul, and at the other points it drifts aimlessly in indecision, not sure of its judgment or conclusion. Further, it is rather long for a one act play, and has many of the usual problems of a courtroom setting...
With some 125 East-bloc agents arrested every month in their divided country, Germans are blasé about spy stories. But the case that unfolded in a Karlsruhe courtroom last week proved that Bonn's vaunted Gehlen intelligence service had been infiltrated for ten years by the Reds, and that the organization had knowingly hired former Nazis. All three of the men on trial, longtime employees of Gehlen, were also longtime employees of the Soviet Union. By all odds, it was the most embarrassing spy scandal to hit West Germany since...
...John Profumo, was ordered to stand trial on seven charges of procuring, arranging abortions, and living off the earnings of prostitution. By the close of the three-day hearing, Magistrate Leo Gradwell had permitted numerous witnesses to testify without revealing their identity, even allowed one witness to leave the courtroom shrouded in a topcoat...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC. 10-11 p.m.). Courtroom drama of a British M.P. trying to hide a blot on his war record. Jack Hawkins, Pamela Brown...