Word: sheppard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What we say and do here will be heard in all the states of the Union," cried white-haired Defense Attorney William J. Corrigan. Day after day, some 50 reporters crowded into a stuffy Cleveland courtroom to cover the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, on trial for the murder of his pretty, pregnant wife, Marilyn. Last week, after 30-odd long and often tedious trial days, the prosecution closed with a dramatic scene, the testimony of Sam's former mistress, Susan Hayes...
...Kill Her?" Slim, graceful Susan Hayes dressed carefully for her appearance. She wore a black wool dress with a prim white collar; she used very little makeup. She was the 31st witness against Sam Sheppard. and her testimony was supposed to supply the motive...
...attorneys, often strident and harsh, were gentle with Susan, but their questions were in plain English. She told of her affair with Dr. Sam, beginning in 1952, when she worked in the Bay View Hospital run by Sheppard's family. "I was a lab technician, and he was a doctor," she said, as though explaining everything. Their relations continued at fleeting moments until last March, when he took her to the home of a friend in California for a week. Did they share the same bed? the prosecutor asked. She said faintly...
...Bruised": Miss Dorothy Kilgallen's "report" of the LSheppard] trial, as seen in your printed excerpt, is one of the most glaring examples of the ever-increasing, detestable "trials by newspaper" . . . Unconsciously, Miss Kilgallen designed her narrative to display one emotion for one person: quivering sympathy for Mrs. Sheppard . . . After a gruesome, adjective-laden description of the slides of the dead woman, consider the effect of the sob sister's subsequent sentence: "No wonder at all that Dr. Sam (meaning the defendant, I presume) cried. He could remember well, without looking...
...rubbing table," got their doctors mixed by describing his extramarital girl friend, Susan Hayes, as the "orthopedic wench." "For an osteopath," commented the New York Post on Dr. Sam's calm courtroom demeanor, "he hardly moved a muscle." Headlines promised BOMBSHELL DUE AT TRIAL TODAY and NEW SHEPPARD SEX ANGLE HINTED. But no bombs burst, no angles materialized...