Courtroom battles often produce sensational scenes resulting in curious spectators and endless news coverage. From ancient to modern times, trials attract significant attention. This collection explores some of the most-fascinating.
Maureen Watkinss play Chicago appears on Broadway in 1926 and later is the basis for the Bob Fosse musical.
Jackie Robinson is politically independent but fights for civil rights.
Abagnale gets caught and sent to a reformatory school.
A military commission holds the trial of Mary Surratt and other conspirators.
Almost 40 years later, upon review, Korematsu's conviction is overturned.
Cornwallis wants to execute Wolfe Tone.
Joan is 17 years old and believes the Saints she prays to want her to go to the Dauphin and convince him that she can lead his army.
Jackie Robinson faces charges of being disrespectful to investigating officers, rather than refusing to move to the rear of the bus.
The Persians invent crucifixion, but the Romans practice it.
In areas that contain pollution from PG&E's plants, the utility company is buying and tearing down homes.
Dillinger is shot and killed after attending the film "Manhattan Melodrama" at the Biograph Theater in Chicago.
Modern medical doctors conclude that suffocation is the cause of death during a crucifixion.
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