{"id":37,"date":"2010-03-01T10:30:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T15:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/01\/new-exhibit-famous-american-trials\/"},"modified":"2010-03-01T15:20:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T20:20:29","slug":"new-exhibit-famous-american-trials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/01\/new-exhibit-famous-american-trials\/","title":{"rendered":"New exhibit: Famous American Trials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/03\/lizzie-borden.jpg\" title=\"Lizzie Borden\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2010\/03\/lizzie-borden.jpg\" alt=\"Lizzie Borden\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>What do <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/ftrials\/lizzieborden\/bordenhome.html\" title=\"Link to Lizzie Borden trial Web page at the University of Missouri, Kansas City\">Lizzie Borden<\/a>, a middle-aged white woman living in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fallriverma.org\/\" title=\"Official home page of Fall River, Massachusetts\">Fall River<\/a>, Massachusetts at the turn of the nineteenth century, who inherited a small fortune after her parents were savagely murdered in their own home, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/FTRIALS\/Simpson\/simpson.htm\" title=\"Link to O.J. Simpson trial page at University of Missouri, Kansas City\">O.J. Simpson<\/a>, all-American athlete turned Hollywood celebrity, who was charged with the brutal murder of his ex-wife and her boyfriend at the turn of the twentieth century, have in common?\u00a0 If you knew that they were both acquitted, and that many people think they literally got away with murder, then you would be right. If you knew that both were defendants in two of the most publicized trials in U.S. history, you would also be right.\u00a0 For these and more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.umkc.edu\/faculty\/projects\/FTrials\/ftrials.htm\" title=\"trials home page at University of Missouri Kansas City\">famous American trials<\/a> see the display case in the center of the <a href=\"http:\/\/library.lawschool.cornell.edu\/WhoWeAre\/Our-Space\/index.cfm\" title=\"About Cornell Law Library building\">Reading Room<\/a>.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do Lizzie Borden, a middle-aged white woman living in Fall River, Massachusetts at the turn of the nineteenth century, who inherited a small fortune after her parents were savagely murdered in their own home, and O.J. Simpson, all-American athlete turned Hollywood celebrity, who was charged with the brutal murder of his ex-wife and her <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2010\/03\/01\/new-exhibit-famous-american-trials\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[319],"tags":[320,318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}