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Crime, history, and Hollywood : learning criminal justice history through major motion pictures / Willard M. Oliver, Nancy E. Marion.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: Durham, NC : Carolina Academic Press, c2013.Description: ix, 227 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781594609756 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43/658 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995.2 .O45 2013
Contents:
Amistad & the trial of the Amistads (1839) -- September dawn & the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857) -- Tombstone & the shootout at the O.K. Corral (1881) -- Eight men out & the fixing of the 1919 World Series (1919) -- St. Valentine's Day massacre & the American gangster Al Capone (1929) -- Public enemies & the hunt for John Dillinger (1934) -- In cold blood & the Clutter Family murders (1959) -- Escape from Alcatraz & the Alcatraz prison (1962) -- Mississippi burning & the murder of three civil rights workers (1964) -- All the president's men & the Watergate scandal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Amistad & the trial of the Amistads (1839) -- September dawn & the Mountain Meadows Massacre (1857) -- Tombstone & the shootout at the O.K. Corral (1881) -- Eight men out & the fixing of the 1919 World Series (1919) -- St. Valentine's Day massacre & the American gangster Al Capone (1929) -- Public enemies & the hunt for John Dillinger (1934) -- In cold blood & the Clutter Family murders (1959) -- Escape from Alcatraz & the Alcatraz prison (1962) -- Mississippi burning & the murder of three civil rights workers (1964) -- All the president's men & the Watergate scandal.

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