Camille Bohannon

Hermann Göring under cross-examination.

Twenty-four high-ranking Nazis went on trial in Nuremberg,
Germany, for atrocities committed during World War II 
beginning on November 20, 1945.

The Nuremberg trials were conducted by an international
tribunal made up of representatives from the United States,
the Soviet Union, France and Great Britain. It was the first
trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges
ranging from crimes against peace, to crimes of war, to crimes
against humanity. Lord Justice Geoffrey Lawrence, the British
member, presided over the proceedings, which lasted 10 months
and consisted of 216 court sessions.

Nuremberg Palace of Justice, Nuremberg, Germany.

At the end of a sensational trial, former football star O.J. Simpson
was acquitted of the brutal 1994 double murder of his estranged
wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.

Clarence Darrow, left, and William Jennings Bryan at the
Scopes trial in 1925. (AP)

July 10, 1925: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called Scopes
Monkey Trial began with John Thomas Scopes, a young
high school science teacher, accused of teaching evolution
in violation of a Tennessee state law.
 

 
William Jennings Bryan, left, and Judge John Raulston.

Schoolteacher John Thomas Scopes, 24, of Dayton,
Tenn., stands before Judge Raulston just before he
was found guilty of teaching evolution and fined
$100 on July 21, 1925, at the end of the Scopes
Monkey Trial held at the Rhea County Courthouse
in Dayton.

The jury reads a guilty verdict against John Scopes.

Nicole Brown Simpson, famous football player O.J. Simpson’s
ex-wife, and her friend Ron Goldman were brutally stabbed to
death outside Nicole’s home in Brentwood, California, in what
quickly becomes one of the most highly publicized trials of the
century. With overwhelming evidence against him, including a
prior record of domestic violence towards Brown, O.J. Simpson
became the chief suspect.

Although he had agreed to turn himself in, Simpson escaped
with  friend A.C. Cowlings in his white Ford Bronco (below) on
June 17. He was carrying his passport, a disguise, and $8,750
in cash. Simpson’s car was spotted that afternoon, but he
refused to surrender immediately. Threatening to kill himself,
he led police in a low-speed chase through the freeways of
Los Angeles as the entire nation watched on television.
Eventually, Simpson gave himself up at his home in
Brentwood.