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.
The painting depicted in this image - another one attributed to Caravaggio and also entitled The Crowning with Thorns - is an oil-on-canvas which meas...
Robespierre dies, by guillotine, on July 28, 1794. During the French Revolution, he was known by his supporters as "The Incorruptible," but it was he ...
Rosa Parks brought the civil rights movement fuel to grow with her actions.
This is a cropped image of the only-known photograph depicting Roxie Hart who was involved, as a witness, in a 1914 trial in Montgomery County, Indian...
For eight years, Rudolf Abel (Willy Fisher) lives in Brooklyn while serving as a Soviet spy. After he is betrayed by a fellow Soviet spy, Abel is arre...
Rudolf Abel, who was born in England and called Willy Fisher, illegally entered the United States in 1948. Thereafter, he would add to his long list o...
Rudolf Abel, whose real name was William Fisher, under arrest for espionage, is transferred by plane to/from Texas where he is questioned at the Deten...
Rudolf Abel lived in a studio apartment at 252 Fulton Street in Brooklyn, New York. This image depicts an interior view of his home. Several of Abel�...
Samuel A. Mudd was a young doctor with several children when he met John Wilkes Booth in the fall of 1864.
Samuel A. Mudd was a young doctor with several children when he met John Wilkes Booth in the fall of 1864.
In addition to his Warren-Commission testimony, Special Agent Clinton Hill prepared a written statement regarding the assassination of President Kenne...
Tintoretto created the painting depicted in this image - Ascent to Calvary - for the Scuola Grande di San Rocco between 1565 and 1567.
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