The illustrated courtroom : 50 years of court art /
"The first collection of the work of five of the most celebrated courtroom artists: Howard Brodie, Aggie Kenny, Bill Robles, Richard Tomlinson and Elizabeth Williams"--
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New York :
CUNY Journalism Press,
2014
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Table of Contents:
- Meet the artists
- Part I: The Art of Law Inside the world of court art
- Charcoal and cameras : playing by the rules of law
- Part II: Sensational Trials. Jack Ruby : a shot too far
- The Black Panther 21 : fear rising
- Charles Manson : helter skelter murders grip Hollywood
- Watergate : dirty deeds in D.C.
- Patty Hearst : heiress as urban guerilla
- David Berkowitz : the Son of Sam murders
- John DeLorean : "let's go to the videotape!"
- The Mafia trials : bringing down the bosses
- Preppie murderer Robert Chambers : putting victims on trial
- Iran-Contra : the perils of the covert and clandestine
- O. J. Simpson : an infamous "not guilty" verdict, a civil justice coda
- Martha Stewart : domestic diva in hot water
- Michael Jackson : troubled idol
- Bernard Madoff : America's most vilified
- Part III: All the World's a Stage. Terrorism in the homeland
- Legal eagles : the power players
- Dirty money : how the mighty insiders have fallen
- Gunshots rang out
- May it please the highest court in the land : the Supreme Court of the United States.