Famous Trials Web Links

   • General Famous Trials Sites
   • Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle Trial
   • Chicago Black Sox Trial
   • Leopold and Loeb Trial
   • Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping Trial
   • Sacco and Vanzetti Trial
   • John Scopes "Monkey" Trial
    • Scottsboro Boys Trial

General Famous Trials Sites

Famous Trials - UMKC School of Law - Prof. Douglas Linder
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
---uses transcripts, maps, pictures, audio clips, primary documents, and essays to examine the events, key figures, and outcomes of 38 famous trials from the trial of Socrates in 399 B.C. to the O.J Simpson trial in 1995.

Famous Trials: University of Pittsburgh School of Law
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/famoustrials/
---describes the events, key figures, and outcomes of 30 historic trials through the use of comprehensive essays.

Famous Court of Law Trials - LawResearch
http://www.lawresearchservices.com/firms/trials/index-trials.htm

Chicago Black Sox Trial

The Chicago Black Sox Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/blacksox/blacksox.html

An Account of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox Scandal and 1921 Trial
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/blacksox/blacksoxaccount.html

Leopold and Loeb Trial

The Trial of Leopold and Loeb
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials5.htm

Leopold and Loeb Trial Home Page
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/leopold.htm

An Account of the Leopold and Loeb Case
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/leoploeb/Accountoftrial.html

John Scopes "Monkey" Trial

Scopes Trial Home Page http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/scopes/scopes.htm ---explores the 1925 State vs. John Scopes “Monkey Trial” and includes an introduction to the evolution controversy, biographies of the key figures, excerpts from the trial transcripts, observer’s accounts, trial pictures and cartoons, appellate decisions, and trial satire.

State V. John Scopes (The "Monkey Trial")
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/famoustrials/Scopes.php
---provides an account of the 1925 State vs. John Scopes “Monkey Trial,” examining American culture at the time, looking at the key figures, and detailing the events of the trial.

People & Events: John Scopes (1900-1970)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/monkeytrial/peopleevents/p_scopes.html ---accompanies the PBS American Experience production of Monkey Trial and provides in depth coverage of the key people and events surrounding the trial, as well as information on issues of the times.

TheHistoryNet | American History | Scopes Trial
http://www.historynet.com/magazines/american_history/3030566.html

The Scopes Trial
http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1438.html

The Scopes 'Monkey Trial' - July 10, 1925 - July 25, 1925
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/inherit/1925home.html

Scottsboro Boys Trial

The Trials of The Scottsboro Boys
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/scottsboro/scottsb.htm

The Greatest Trials of All Time: The Scottsboro Boys
http://www.courttv.com/archive/greatesttrials/scottsboro/trials.html

American Experience | Scottsboro: An American Tragedy
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/scottsboro/index.html

The Trial of the "Scottsboro Boys"
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/trials4.htm