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page 120th-century American trials

Roscoe Arbuckle
American actor, director and comedian
Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian American anarchist duo executed by Massachusetts
Patty Hearst
American kidnapping victim
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg
American couple executed for spying for the Soviet Union
Scopes Trial
1925 legal case in Tennessee, USA
Brown v. Board of Education
1954 U.S. Supreme Court case which declared school segregation unconstitutional
O. J. Simpson murder case
criminal trial decided October 3, 1995 in United States
John Hinckley
attempted assassin of Ronald Reagan (born 1955)
Leopold and Loeb
American kidnapper-murderer duo, committed "the crime of the century"
Scottsboro Boys
nine African American teenagers falsely accused of rape in 1931
Chicago Seven
protestors opposed to the Vietnam War
Miranda v. Arizona
1966 U.S. Supreme Court case establishing the use of the Miranda warning
Lindbergh kidnapping
Kidnapping and murder of 20 month old Charles Lindbergh Jr
Black Sox Scandal
1919 baseball World Series scandal
Central Park jogger case
1989 crime involving a violent attack on a jogger in New York City

Edgar Ray Killen
former Ku Klux Klan organizer convicted of three counts of manslaughter (1925-2018)

McMartin preschool trial
American court case

Lochner v. New York
United States Supreme Court case

Furman v. Georgia
1972 U.S. Supreme Court case declaring arbitrary use of the death penalty unconstitutional

Twilight Zone accident
crash of a Bell UH-1 Iroquois helicopter
Sam Sheppard
American neurosurgeon (1923-1970)
trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson
American court case alleging demonic possession
Hustler Magazine v. Falwell
1988 United States Supreme Court case
Harry Kendall Thaw
American playboy (1871–1947)
Los Angeles Times bombing
purposeful dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times Building in Los Angeles, US, on 1 Oct. 1910, by a union member belonging to the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers

murder of Bobby Kent
Murder of Iranian American man in Florida, U.S.
As Nasty As They Wanna Be
1989 album by 2 Live Crew
murder of Shanda Sharer
American murder case
Elaine Race Riot
anti-black violence in Elaine, Arkansas in 1919
Gideon v. Wainwright
1963 United States Supreme Court case
Angola Three
three prison inmates – Robert Hillary King/Albert Woodfox/Herman Wallace – Louisiana State Penitentiary
Mafia Commission Trial
1985–1986 criminal trial against the heads of New York City's "Five Families"