*THE 1900s*
*’HARRY K. THAW’ MURDER TRIAL*
(1906)
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Sacco and Vanzetti murder trial (1920-1927)
Italian immigrant laborers to US
Anarchists
Convicted for 1920 armed robbery / murder of Massachusetts pay clerk + security guard of a shoe company whose payroll was stolen
4 Luigi Galleani (1861 – 1931)
20th century anarchist
1920 Wall Street bombing
(the followers of Galleani were accused)
(the Wall Street bombing was a reaction to the imprisonment of Sacco and Vanzetti)
Ferruccio Coacci
(Galleanist who had been arrested by local police chief Michael Stewart for the Federal Immigration Service two years before the double murder)
FIS contacts Stewart the day after the murder and asks about Coacci
Coacci had been able to delay his deportation until the day of the Braintree murders
(he had advocated the violent overthrow of the US government)
He failed to show up at the police station that day and claimed that his wife had fallen ill
(Stewart and two policeman show up at Coacci’s home)
Coacci’s wife was in good health and he insisted that the police arrest him for immediate deportation (this raised red flags)
But his timecard showed him to be at work on the day of the murder, so with his alibi he was sent back to Italy.
These guys were probably guilty of the murders
(just like OJ Simpson was probably guilty of murdering his wife)
Only difference was Sacco and Vanzetti were found guilty and both executed by electric chair in 1927
Harkening to Rick Santelli + Maria Bartimoro
(opponents of Wall Street bailouts)
(Pellagatti is attending Rick Santelli’s ‘Boston Tea Party’)
Erin Burnett is a LaCour-Bot
(she wants the bankers she is boning to continue to finance her lavish lifestyle)
Leopold and Loeb murder trial (1924)
Desire to commit ‘perfect crime’
Two wealthy University of Chicago students
Murdered 14-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924
Nathan Leopold (1904 – 1971)
Richard Loeb (1905 – 1936)
(And we had Klebold + Harris)
Believed themselves to be Nietzschean supermen
Nathan Leopold was an intellectual prodigy who spoke his first words at the age of four months, and tested with an I.Q. of 210. Leopold had already completed college, graduating Phi beta Kappa and was attending law school at the University of Chicago. He claimed to have studied 15 languages but in reality spoke four. He was an expert ornithologist, while Loeb, with an I.Q. in the 160s, was the youngest graduate in the history of the University of Michigan. Leopold planned to transfer to Harvard Law School in September, after taking a trip to Europe. Loeb planned to enter the University of Chicago Law School after taking some post-graduate courses
Defended by Clarence Darrow
Leopold + Loeb pleaded guilty to the murders
Updated version in ‘Alpha Dog’ (2006)
‘Leopold + Loeb: The Story Of Two Nice Jewish Boys From Chicago’
Leopold served a 33-year jail sentence. Both Leopold and Loeb were prison prophets, using their fancy educations to enlighten the dummy prisoners. Loeb was murdered by fellow inmate James Day in 1936 (his throat was slashed from behind with a straight razor in the prison’s shower room). Day claimed that Loeb had attempted to sexually assault him. Though this seems unlikely given the circumstances, the court ruled that James Day acted in self-defense.
Newsman Ed Lahey wrote this lead for the Chicago Daily News: “Richard Loeb, despite his erudition, today ended his sentence with a proposition.”
(journalism sure has taken a nosedive from those glory days!)
Meanwhile, Leopold became even more Christ-like, volunteering to be infected with malaria in 1944, mastering 27 languages, and penning an autobiography ‘Life Plus 99 Years’.
In 1958, 54-year-old Leopold was released on parole. He moved to Puerto Rico to avoid media scrutiny and married a widowed florist. He worked as a lab + X-ray assistant at a local hospital. He was planning to write a second book ‘Snatch For A Halo’ about his life following prison, but he never did so.
‘Compulsion’ (1959)
Movie based on the Leopold + Loeb case
Directed by Richard Fleischer (1916 – 2006)
Orson Welles plays the heroic lawyer of Leopold + Loeb who saves them from the electric chair
Leopold tried to block the movie’s release through legal channels
Leopold died of a diabetes-related heart attack at age 66
(he donated his organs)
Scopes Monkey trial (1925)
Religious dogma vs. Science
Butler Act
(1925 Tennessee law meant to prohibit any teaching of man’s origin that conflicted with the Bible)
American Civil Liberties Union financed a test case where schoolteacher John Scopes taught the children Charles Darwin’s ‘On The Origin Of Species’.
(Darwin the original ‘line-tracer’)
William Jennings Bryan vs. Clarence Darrow
Gloria Vanderbilt Custody Trial (1934)
The ‘taming of the mother’
What happens when you leave a bunch of women to themselves with a fortune?
Gloria Vanderbilt (born 1924)
Gloria Vanderbilt was the heir to an heir. Her father died when she was just 15 months old (another trust fund baby with a bad case of alcoholism / he died of liver cirrhosis). Then Gloria inherited a trust fund worth 4 million dollars. Her mother controlled the fund while Gloria was a minor and the two of them traveled back and forth to Paris for many years with her mother’s twin sister Thelma (who was busy fucking the married Prince of Wales at the time) and their nanny ‘Dodo’. Sounds like quite a wacky bunch! They were racking up such serious bills that the dead father’s sister ‘Aunt Gertrude’ raised a fuss and won custody of young Gloria (since her own mother was deemed an ‘unfit parent’ by the courts).
Gloria Vanderbilt’s son is CNN anchor Anderson Cooper (born 1967)
Lindbergh trial (1935)
HL Mencken: ‘The Biggest Story Since The Resurrection’
Charles Lindbergh (1902 – 1974)
(I equate his political beliefs with Henry Ford)
In 1932, Charles Lindbergh’s son was abducted from his NJ home and murdered.
The baby was stolen from his crib on a March night
A ransom note was left
Ransom was delivered but the baby was not returned
Two months later, a fat NJ truck driver was taking a piss along a road 5 miles from the Lindbergh home and discovered the corpse of the infant. The parents identified the missing infant and it was determined that the baby had died with a blow to the head.
The police tracked the gold certificates used to pay out the ransom. Over two years later, a $10 certificate was traced to a gas station (gold certificates were unusual and the gas station attendant wrote the license plate # of Bruno Hauptmann on it). A German immigrant with a criminal record in his homeland (burglary). Police found $14,000 of the ransom money in his garage.
Bruno Hauptmann (1899 – 1936)
*He was found guilty and electrocuted in 1936*
Trial was held in Flemington, NJ
Nuremberg trials (1945-1946)
Prosecution of Nazi Germany leaders after German defeat in World War II
Adolf Eichmann trial (1961)
Adolf Eichmann (1906 – 1962)
‘Architect of the Holocaust’
He snuck away to Argentina after the war and captured by Israeli operatives
He was hanged in 1962
Klaus Barbie trial (1987)
Klaus Barbie (1913 – 1991)
SS Officer / Gestapo member
‘Butcher of Lyon’
Juan and Eva Peron…
Come to our Argentina!
Klaus Barbie becomes an informant with the US Army and with their help he flees to Argentina after World War II. From there, he moved to Bolivia. He even found time to take part in the ‘Cocaine Coup’.
He was a wanted man by the ‘Nazi hunters’ of the era and they identified him as early as 1971. But it was only in 1983 that the newly elected Bolivian government arrested him + extradited him to France. In 1984 he was put on trial and in 1987 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died of leukemia four years later.
Nicolae Ceauşescu trial (1989)
Nicolae Ceauşescu (1918 – 1989)
Romanian leader
What’s happening? A Communist leader being booed by the masses? This can’t be!
1989 Romanian revolution
Ceausescu and his wife fled the capital and their helicopter was ordered to land by the army
The army arrested them and set up a military tribunal
Charged with ‘illegal gathering of wealth’ + ‘genocide’
Executed by firing squad
Imelda Marcos racketeering trial (1990)
Imelda Marcos (born 1929)
Widow of Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos (1912 – 1989)
(the one who had the run-in with the Beatles)
In 1986, Ferdinand Marcos’s regime was overthrown
The Marcos couple went in exile and Ferdinand died in exile
Imelda Marcos faced racketeering + fraud charges in the United States
(George Hamilton was even called to the stand by the defense!)
O. J. Simpson murder trial (1995)
OJ Simpson (born 1947)
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OJ Simpson was acquitted of murdering Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman
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*THE 2000s*
*THE ‘SLOBODAN MILOSEVIC’ TRIAL*
(2002 – 2005)
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*👨🔬🕵️♀️🙇♀️*SKETCHES*🙇♂️👩🔬🕵️♂️*
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*🌈✨ *TABLE OF CONTENTS* ✨🌷*
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🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥*we won the war* 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥