Fall Semester 2012
Syllabus
Professor Doug Linder
Classroom video
presentations
are indicated in brackets.
GRADING AND CLASS ASSIGNMENT FOR 2011
SYLLABUS
FOR SEMINAR IN PRE-TWENTIETH CENTURY FAMOUS TRIALS
SESSION 1 (August 23)
THE LINCOLN ASSASSINATION CONSPIRACY
TRIAL (1865)
D.
Linder, Lincoln Assassination Conspiracy Trial Website; [History
Channel, The Lincoln Assassination; Lionsgate,
The Conspirator]
SESSION 2 (August 30)
THE TRIAL OF LEOPOLD AND LOEB (1924)
SESSION 3 (Sept. 6)
SESSION 5 (Sept. 20)
HAUPTMANN (LINDBERGH KIDNAPPING) TRIAL (1935)
SESSION 7 (Sept.
27)
THE NUREMBERG TRIALS (1946-48)
D.
Linder, The Nuremberg Trials Website; [Video: TNT, Nuremberg; Judgment
at
Nuremberg]
SESSION 8 (Oct. 4)
THE ROSENBERGS TRIAL (1951)
D.
Linder, The Rosenberg Trial Website; [The
Rosenbergs Trial (American Justice); The Rosenbergs: Case Closed
(Discovery Channel)]
SESSION 9 (Oct.
11)
THE "MISSISSIPPI BURNING' (U.S. V. PRICE ET AL.) TRIAL (1967)
D. Linder, The "Mississippi Burning" (U. S. v. Price et al.) Trial Website; D. Linder, "Bending Toward Justice: John Doar and the Mississippi Burning Trial"; [MGM, Mississippi Burning; ABC News, Murder in Mississippi: The Price of Freedom]
SESSION 8 (Oct. 18)
THE
MY LAI COURTS MARTIAL (1970)
D.
Linder, The
My Lai Courts Martial; [Video: Court
TV: The Greatest Trials of All Time: Lt. Calley and My Lai]
SESSION 11 (Nov. 1)
THE
TRIAL OF DAN WHITE (HARVEY MILK MURDER) (1979)
D.
Linder, The
Dan White Trial; [Video: The
Times of Harvey Milk (Janus Films); Milk (Focus Features)]
SESSION 12 (Nov. 8)
THE McMARTIN PRESCHOOL TRIAL (1987-90)
THE TRIAL OF O. J. SIMPSON (1995)
D. Linder, The Trial of O. J. Simpson; [Court TV, Excerpts from the Simpson Trial]