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Lise Pearlman. WITH JUSTICE FOR SOME
EARLY REVIEWS OF With Justice For Some
WITH JUSTICE FOR SOME
DEDICATION
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. A BITTER TEACHING MOMENT. The Assassination of President McKinley
2. DEMENTIA AMERICANA. A Dramatic Murder Brings the Curtain Crashing Down on the Gilded Age
3. UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS. Two Lethal Bombings Focus Americans on Labor Wars
4. SHOWDOWN WITH THE SUPREME COURT. The Lynching That Gave Teeth to the Fourteenth Amendment Right to a Fair Trial
5. MURDER BEGETS MURDER. Two Tragic Deaths in Atlanta Launch the Modern KKK and the Anti-Defamation League
6. THE FIX WAS IN. The Fall Guys for the Gamblers Who Rigged the 1919 World Series
7. THE LEGAL LYNCHING OF SACCO AND VANZETTI. A Biased Judicial System Gives American Justice an International Black Eye
8. TEENAGE SOCIOPATHS. Life or Death for Leopold and Loeb?
9. THE DARK SIDE OF THE SCOPES TRIAL. White Supremacists on Both Sides Embrace Genocide
10. A BLACK MAN’S CASTLE. The Sweet Murder Trials Launch the NAACP Legal Defense Fund as the KKK Collapses
11. ALABAMA STAND-OFF. The Railroading of the Scottsboro Boys Prompts Two Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
The Scottsboro Boys
12. THE EXPLOSIVE MASSIE AFFAIR. False Charges of Gang Rape Set the Stage for Hawaiian Statehood
13. THE LINDBERGH BABY KILLING. Law Enforcement Helps Cover Up “The Crime of the Century”
Old Smokey
CONCLUSION
ENDNOTES
INTRODUCTION
Chapter 1 A BITTER TEACHING MOMENT President McKinley’s Assassination
Chapter 2 DEMENTIA AMERICANA A Dramatic Murder Brings the Curtain Down on the Gilded Age
Chapter 3 UNDESIRABLE CITIZENS Two Lethal Bombings Focus Americans on Labor Wars
Chapter 4 SHOWDOWN WITH THE SUPREME COURT The Lynching That Gave Teeth to the Fourteenth Amendment Right to a Fair Trial
Chapter 5 MURDER BEGETS MURDER Two Tragic Deaths in Atlanta Launch the Modern KKK and the Anti-Defamation League
Chapter 6 THE FIX WAS IN The Fall Guys for the Gamblers Who Rigged the 1919 World Series
Chapter 7 LEGAL LYNCHING OF SACCO AND VANZETTI Biased Judicial System Gives American Justice an International Black Eye
Chapter 8 TEENAGE SOCIOPATHS Life or Death for Leopold and Loeb?
Chapter 9 THE DARK SIDE OF THE SCOPES TRIAL White Supremacists on Both Sides Embrace Genocidal Acts
Chapter 10 A BLACK MAN’S CASTLE The Sweet Murder Trials Launch the NAACP Legal Defense Fund as the KKK Collapses
Chapter 11 ALABAMA STAND-OFF The Railroading of the Scottsboro Boys Prompts Two Landmark Supreme Court Decisions
Chapter 12 THE MASSIE AFFAIR False Charges of Gang Rape Set the Stage for Hawaiian Statehood
Chapter 13 THE LINDBERGH BABY KILLING Law Enforcement Helps Cover Up Key Evidence in “The Crime of the Century”
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX. PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION (1789)
THE BILL OF RIGHTS (1791)
RECONSTRUCTION AMENDMENTS (1865–1870)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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by Lise Pearlman
Jonah Raskin, author of A Terrible Beauty: The Wilderness of American Literature
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The following January, in a less sensational retrial Thaw had a new chief defense counsel, Martin Littleton. Mrs. Thaw had finally realized that she could best save her son from conviction by giving far more ammunition to the temporary insanity defense. She offered up details of trauma experienced by Thaw in utero, serious illnesses he suffered as a child, and many instances of weird behavior. The tales his mother had done her best to keep private over the years included Thaw’s history of writhing uncontrollably with a movement disorder (either from rheumatic fever or epilepsy), wild temper tantrums in which he threw china and heavy objects at servants, an attention-grabbing suicide attempt as a teenager, and his propensity for babbling like a baby even as a young man.
During the first trial, the names of White’s friends and associates as well as chorus girls other than Evelyn were deliberately kept from public airing to protect their reputations. By the time of the second trial in 1908 no one involved came out unscathed. The public did not feel sorry for the victim, nor did they empathize much with his crazed, self-indulgent attacker. Evelyn Nesbit also was impugned as a gold digger with the spread of false rumors that she was paid a million dollars for her teary-eyed testimony. No faith remained in innocence as the 20th century emerged with a full-blown exposé of the immoral excesses of New York’s moneyed class.
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