Tennessee schoolteacher convicted of teaching evolution in defiance of state law.

1
(No Transcript)
2
(No Transcript)
3
(No Transcript)
4
(No Transcript)
5
Tennessee schoolteacher convicted of teaching
evolution in defiance of state law.
6
John Scopes
7
(No Transcript)
8
(No Transcript)
9
C
onvicted of conspiracy to commit wartime
espionage - implicated in passing atom bomb
information to Soviets.
10
Ethel Rosenburg
11
(No Transcript)
12
(No Transcript)
13
Brain-dead, on a respirator, (through her
fathers suit) she successfully established a
right to die based on right of privacy.
14
Karen Ann Quinlen
15
(No Transcript)
16
(No Transcript)
17
Convicted of unlawful voting, she unsuccessfully
argued before the U.S. Supreme Court that 14th
Amendment gave her voting rights equal to men.
18
Susan B. Anthony
19
(No Transcript)
20
(No Transcript)
21
Conviction overturned because his confession was
obtained without informing him of certain
constitutional rights.
22
Ernesto Miranda
23
(No Transcript)
24
(No Transcript)
25
Co-defendant in murder trial. Admitted anarchist,
the trial and subsequent execution attracted
world-wide sympathy for the defendants, who were
viewed as unjustly accused because of their
political beliefs and social status
26
Bartolomeo Vanzetti
27
(No Transcript)
28
(No Transcript)
29
Challenged Louisiana law requiring segregated
railroad cars
30
Homer Plessy
31
(No Transcript)
32
(No Transcript)
33
Only U.S. president tried for impeachment. (2/3
of Senate required, he won by one vote.)
34
Andrew Johnson
35
(No Transcript)
36
(No Transcript)
37
Official killed city supervisor and mayor of San
Francisco. Used the so-called "Twinkie defense"
(overindulgence in junk food) to persuade the
jury to a verdict of voluntary manslaughter
rather than murder. Many homosexuals regarded the
verdict a result of leniency because the city
supervisor was an admitted homosexual and the
defendant had made anti-gay remarks while a
public employee.
38
Dan White
39
(No Transcript)
40
(No Transcript)
41
A physician, he treated broken ankle of
Lincoln's assassin, and was convicted of
treason. He was pardoned by the President for his
humanitarian conduct in treating fellow prisoners
during an epidemic.
42
Samuel Mudd
43
(No Transcript)
44
(No Transcript)
45
Tried and convicted of perjury, he was a state
department official who was accused of being a
communist.
46
Alger Hiss
47
(No Transcript)
48
(No Transcript)
49
Army colonel highly critical of unpreparedness of
U.S. military, an advocate of air warfare after
World War I, he was court-martialed for
insubordination and forced out of military
service.
50
Billy Mitchell
51
(No Transcript)
52
(No Transcript)
53
Sued former movie star lover for 'palimony.'
54
Michelle Marvin