Description: Episode #28 OBD: 1964-04-13 TRT: 30 min Description: This program explores the question of whether justice is being done in the courts of the United States in view of two controversial areas regarding trials – the great amount of publicity and press before a case goes to trial and the use of psychiatric testimony in the courts. These two issues became an intense focal point of attention in the trial of Jack Ruby, convicted of the murder of the alleged assassin of President Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald. AT ISSUE interviews the two principal participants involved in the Ruby trial, and representatives and jurisprudence and the press. Guests: Dallas District Attorney Henry Wade, prosecutor in the Ruby case, in the first EXCLUSIVE television interview since the trial ended in March. Melvin Belli, San Francisco attorney and chief defense counsel for Ruby. He was fired by Ruby’s family following Ruby’s conviction. Bernard S. Meyer, Honorable Justice of the Supreme Court, Nassau County, New York, who made the original school prayer decision that led to the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year on prayer in public schools Turner Catledge, managing editor of the New York Times, who discusses the influence of the press on justice. AT ISSUE A 1964 National Educational Television production Executive producer: Alvin Perlmutter Producer: Howard Felscher
Keywords: women's rights
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