Note: Over the years that I've maintained the Famous Trials website, I have received a number of emails from Canadian visitors suggesting that I a...
Lizzie Borden took an axe, and gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, She gave her father forty-one. Actually, the Bordens rece...
Old Bailey, the main courthouse in London, had never presented a show quite like the three trials that captivated England and much of the literary wor...
The struggle between the Western Federation of Miners and the Western Mine Owners' Association at the turn of the twentieth century might well be ...
Only once in its history has the United States Supreme Court conducted a criminal trial. The trial, taking place in both Tennessee and the District of...
It was a warm spring Saturday in New York City, March 25, 1911. On the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building just off of Washington Square, ...
The players on the Charles Comiskey's 1919 Chicago White Sox team were a fractious lot with plenty to complain about. The club was divided into tw...
Sacco and Vanzetti: for a generation of Americans, the names of the two Italian anarchists are forever linked. Questions surrounding their 1921 trial ...
Few trial transcripts are as likely to bring tears to the eyes as that of the 1924 murder trial of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold. Decades after Clar...
The early 1920s found social patterns in chaos. Traditionalists, the older Victorians, worried that everything valuable was ending. Younger modernists...