1954-19691960s NEWSREELS
THE SAM SHEPPARD MURDER CASE OF 1954. CONFLICT BETWEEN THE RIGHTS OF THE PRESS AND THE RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED TO A FAIR TRIAL BY JURY. EMPHASIS PLACED UPON THE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES INVOLVED AND THE 1966 SUPREME COURT DECISION WHICH ESTABLISHED GUIDELINES FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ACCUSED FROM PREJUDICIAL PUBLICITY. NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, TELEVISION VIDEO TAPES AND NEWSREEL INTERVIEWS OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE SHEPPARD CASE.
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JULY 4, 1954 ISSUE OF THE CLEVELAND PRESS HEADLINE "DOCTOR'S WIFE MURDERED IN BAY VILLAGE" MARILYN SHEPPARD.
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SAM SHEPPARD'S ACCOUNT IS READ WITH A STILL OF SHEPPARD SHOWN
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REENACTMENT OF THE CRIME, MAN RUNNING UPSTAIRS TO THE BEDROOM IS STRUCK FROM BEHIND, MAN COMES TO, WIFE IS DEAD, RUSHES INTO SON'S ROOM, HE IS UNHARMED, HEARS A NOISE DOWNSTAIRS, RUNS DOWN AND OUTSIDE CHASING A FIGURE DOWN THE PATH TO THE BEACH. TACKLES A MAN FROM BEHIND, IS CHOKED, AWAKENS WITH HIS FEET IN THE WATER THEN WALKS UP THE STAIRS AND BACK INTO THE BEDROOM.
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| 01:11:37 132.83 |
NEWSPAPER STAND ON STREET CORNER. CLEVELAND PRESS HEADLINE "MARILYN'S FATHER WILL TAKE STAND" NEWSPAPER FOLLOWING THE MURDER CASE. PEOPLE BUY NEWSPAPERS FROM THE CORNER NEWS STAND
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MONTAGE PEOPLE FOLLOWING THE NEWS, PEOPLE READ NEWSPAPERS, WATCH TELEVISION COVERAGE OF THE SAM SHEPPARD MURDER CASE. PEOPLE WATCH BANK OF TV SETS IN ELECTRONICS STORE WINDOW. NEWS COVERAGE OF THE MURDER CASE
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| 01:12:27 182.83 |
POV WATCHING 1960s NEWS CAST REPORTER TALKS ABOUT THE SHEPPARD CASE
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EXTERIOR SUBURBAN HOME. POLICE SEARCH THE GROUNDS OF THE SHEPPARD HOME FOR CLUES
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| 01:13:18 233.83 |
EXTERIOR BAY VIEW HOSPITAL
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| 01:13:28 243.83 |
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "DOCTOR'S NECK REPORTED BROKEN"
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| 01:13:48 263.83 |
SAM SHEPPARD IS WHEELED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL WITH NECK BRACE ACCOMPANIED BY THE POLICE TO ATTEND WIFE'S FUNERAL
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| 01:13:58 273.83 |
MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES FOLLOWING THE SHEPPARD MURDER CASE
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| 01:14:42 317.83 |
SAM SHEPPARD IN NECK BRACE ARRIVING AT INQUEST HELD AT THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM. NORMANDY SCHOOL.
COUNTY CORONER DR. GERBER |
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MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES FOLLOWING THE MURDER CASE.
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| 01:15:02 337.83 |
SAM SHEPPARD INQUEST, 1954.
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| 01:15:12 347.83 |
NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ABOUT THE CASE. "MYSTERY WOMAN SAYS SHEPPARD VISIT HER ON LOS ANGELES TRIP"
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| 01:15:25 360.83 |
WOMAN LINKED TO SHEPPARD IS ESCORTED OFF PLANE BY POLICE
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| 01:15:40 375.83 |
MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES FOLLOWING THE CASE
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| 01:15:49 384.83 |
1954, SHEPPARD IS ARRESTED, TAKEN AWAY IN HANDCUFFS
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| 01:16:05 400.83 |
TILT DOWN BUILDING WHERE SHEPPARD TRIAL IS HELD. ON THE STREET IS A 1950s NBC TELEVISION REMOTE VAN
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| 01:16:09 404.83 |
NEWS CAMERAS SET UP ON THE STREET IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING. JUDGE ARRIVES AND SPEAKS BRIEFLY TO THE REPORTERS.
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| 01:16:26 421.83 |
FOOTAGE AND STILL MONTAGE OF SHEPPARD ENTERING THE COURT HOUSE
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| 01:16:40 435.83 |
STILLS, SHEPPARD'S LAWYER WILLIAM CORRIGAN & JUDGE BLYTHIN
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| 01:17:03 458.83 |
SHOTS OF THE JURORS, JURY IN THE SAM SHEPPARD CASE
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| 01:17:10 465.83 |
NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "JURYMEN LISTED IN MURDER TRIAL"
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| 01:17:15 470.83 |
JURORS LEAVING THE COURTHOUSE
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| 01:17:23 478.83 |
NEWSPAPER HEADLINE FROM THE CLEVELAND PRESS "BUT WHO WILL SPEAK FOR MARILYN?"
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| 01:17:31 486.83 |
SAM SHEPPARD MURDER TRIAL FOOTAGE
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| 01:17:41 496.83 |
CLEVELAND PRESS NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "GERBER TELLS OF SURGERY TOOL IMPRINT ON MARILYN'S PILLOW" DAMAGING STORY
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| 01:17:56 511.83 |
MONTAGE WITNESSES. WOMAN WEARS 1960s FUR COAT, NERVOUS WITNESS ON THE STAND LOOSENS HIS TIE.
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| 01:18:06 521.83 |
CLEVELAND PRESS NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "SAYS MARILYN CALLED SAM A JECKLE-HYDE"
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| 01:18:07 522.83 |
MEMBERS OF THE PRESS, NEWS CAMERAMEN AT THE SHEPPARD TRIAL BANK OF REPORTERS COVERING THE CASE
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DOOR MARKED PRIVATE IS CLOSED
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| 01:18:18 533.83 |
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE "MAHON, BLYTHIN WIN COMMON PLEAS JOBS"
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STILL
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| 01:18:28 543.83 |
FEMALE INTERVIEWED BY REPORTER "HE'S EXTREMELY GOOD LOOKING..IN PROFILE HE GREATLY RESEMBLES MARLON BRANDO" FEMALE JUROR MORE INTERESTED IN HIS LOOKS THAN IN JUSTICE
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| 01:19:06 581.83 |
NEWSPAPER REPORTER PAUL HOLMES INTERVIEWED BY REPORTER ABOUT THE SAM SHEPPARD MURDER CASE
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| 01:20:07 642.83 |
CLEVELAND PRESS NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "STATE ASKS FOR DEATH FOR DR. SAM"
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| 01:20:12 647.83 |
JURY WALKS UPSTAIRS AND INTO DELIBERATION ROOM
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| 01:20:16 651.83 |
MONTAGE NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF THE CASE. HEADLINE "JURORS DEBATE DR. SAM'S FATE JUDGE GIVES LIFE-DEATH CHARGE" "JURY LOCKED UP ANOTHER NIGHT"
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| 01:20:25 660.83 |
JUDGE ENTERS COURTROOM AND TAKES HIS SEAT. READS JURY'S VERDICT "NOT GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE BUT GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE"
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| 01:20:47 682.83 |
REPORTERS RUNNING DOWN HALLWAY PUSHING EACH OTHER TO GET BEST POSITION TO INTERVIEW SHEPPARD
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| 01:20:55 690.83 |
CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "SHEPPARD GUILTY, GETS LIFE; INNOCENT, DOCTOR INSISTS"
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| 01:21:04 699.83 |
SHEPPARD IS ESCORTED INTO JAIL CELL
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NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL "A TRAGIC EPISODE ENDS"
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SHEPPARD BEING TRANSFERRED FROM THE COUNTY JAIL.
SHEPPARD IN THE BACK SEAT OF CAR ON HIGHWAY |
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SHEPPARD ESCORTED INTO OHIO STATE PENITENTIARY SURROUNDED BY REPORTERS AND CAMERAMEN
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| 01:21:53 748.83 |
HS PRISON YARD, PRISONERS. GROUP OF BLACK PRISONERS WALKING
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| 01:22:17 772.83 |
F. LEE BAILEY TALKING ABOUT THE CASE "...IT JUST DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT TO LET AN INNOCENT MAN TO LANGUISH AWAY IN PRISON WITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO GET HIM OUT..."
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| 01:23:11 826.83 |
OHIO STATE PENITENTIARY EXTERIOR, SHEPPARD & LAWYERS INCLUDING F. LEE BAILEY WALKING SURROUNDED BY PRESS AND CAMERAMEN
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| 01:23:20 835.83 |
SAM SHEPPARD GIVES PRESS CONFERENCE. F. LEE BAILEY.
SHEPPARD TALKS ABOUT THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER DURING THE TRIAL "HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST TO GET HER BACK?" |
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SHEPPARD AND HIS NEW "PRISON PEN PAL" BRIDE 2 DAYS AFTER HIS RELEASE. COUPLE GETTING OFF UNITED AIRPLANE SURROUNDED BY THE PRESS. MOBBED BY NEWSMEN. NEW BRIDE INTERVIEWED
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| 01:25:07 942.83 |
F. LEE BAILEY INTERVIEWED "OUR SYSTEM HAS SOME SERIOUS FLAWS IN IT"
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| 01:25:40 975.83 |
CU SHEPPARD AND NEW BRIDE IN CAR BEING INTERVIEWED
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| 01:25:57 992.83 |
F LEE BAILEY TALKS TO THE CAMERA CONCERNING THE CASE
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| 01:26:16 1011.83 |
WINTER 1965, SNOWING, F LEE BAILEY ENTERING THE SUPREME COURT. SUPREME COURT GRANTED A NEW TRIAL 11/66. ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM SAXTBE ARGUING THE CASE FOR THE STATE OF OHIO. 1960s NEWS CAMERAS
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| 01:26:31 1026.83 |
OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM SAXBE INTERVIEWED
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| 01:27:05 1060.83 |
WINTER EXTERIOR SUPREME COURT
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| 01:27:10 1065.83 |
LOUIS CLIFFORD, CITY EDITOR CLEVELAND PRESS INTERVIEWED
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| 01:27:50 1105.83 |
MAN-ON-THE-STREET INTERVIEWED "IT'S PRETTY HARD FOR ONE VOICE TO OVERCOME MILLIONS OF VOICES REPRESENTED BY THE CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS
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LOUIS CLIFFORD INTERVIEW CONTINUES
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| 01:28:35 1150.83 |
MAN-ON-THE-STREET INTERVIEW CONTINUES
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| 01:29:28 1203.83 |
STILL, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. 1966
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| 01:29:48 1223.83 |
PORTIONS OF THE DECISION READ WITH JURORS ENTERING THE COURT & NEWSPAPER HEADLINES REGARDING THE CASE
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| 01:30:43 1278.83 |
SHEPPARD ESCORTED INTO THE COURTROOM
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| 01:30:55 1290.83 |
SHEPPARD CASE JURORS LEAVING THE COURTHOUSE
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| 01:31:04 1299.83 |
MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ABOUT THE JURORS. PHOTOS AND ADDRESSES GIVEN IN THE PAPER
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| 01:31:21 1316.83 |
SAM SHEPPARD IN FIRST TRIAL WITH NECK BRACE
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| 01:31:28 1323.83 |
NEWSPAPER HEADLINES AND STILLS OF SHEPPARD CASE
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| 01:31:58 1353.83 |
LOW ANGLE CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING
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| 01:32:06 1361.83 |
SAM SHEPPARD SMOKING A CIGAR ENTERS CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING FOR RETRIAL
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| 01:32:18 1373.83 |
JUDGE SPEAKS ABOUT THE TRIAL, "THERE WILL BE NO CAMERAS OR SOUND EQUIPMENT OF ANY SORT.."
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| 01:32:44 1399.83 |
SAM SHEPPARD RETRIAL, JURY GOING IN TO DELIBERATE
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| 01:32:56 1411.83 |
SHEPPARD MOBBED BY PRESS AND CAMERA AFTER RETRIAL, FOUND NOT GUILTY 11/66
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| 01:34:13 1488.83 |
F LEE BAILEY INTERVIEWED, "MY REACTION IS THAT THE SYSTEM PAID OFF.."
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