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Order in the Court: 10 “Trials of the Century”: Media

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Taking an oath
People taking an oath in a courtroom.
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Christian fundamentalism
Anti-evolution books on sale in Dayton, Tennessee, during the Scopes Trial, 1925.
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Socrates
The Death of Socrates, oil on canvas by Jacques-Louis David, 1787; in the...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City; Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection; Wolfe-Fund, 1931 (accession no. 31.45); www.metmuseum.org
Galilei, Galileo
An 1880 engraving depicting Galileo Galilei's 1633 recantation of his support for...
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Lizzie Borden
Lizzie Borden and her attorney in the courtroom before her acquittal, sketch by B....
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Scopes Trial
William Jennings Bryan (lower left, with fan) and Clarence Darrow (center right,...
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco
Bartolomeo Vanzetti (left) and Nicola Sacco (right) in custody during their murder...
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Charles Manson
American cult leader Charles Manson, 1970.
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“Trial of the century”
O.J. Simpson (center) and his attorneys F. Lee Bailey (left) and Johnnie Cochran...
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Bill Clinton
U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton.
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