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NUREMBERG TRIALS BEGAN ON THIS DAY
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.
SIMPSON WAS ACQUITTED ON THIS DAY IN 1995
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.
In the epic 252-day trial, Simpson’s “dream team” of lawyers
employed creative and controversial methods to convince jurors
that Simpson’s guilt had not been proved “beyond a reasonable
doubt,” thus surmounting what the prosecution called a
“mountain of evidence” implicating him as the murderer.




THE JOHN T. SCOPES ‘’MONKEY’’ TRIAL
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.


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