Dennis Curran to present the Trial of Lizzie Borden at COA
The Medfield Historical Society in collaboration with the Medfield Public Library and the Council on Aging will present popular speaker Dennis J. Curran at Council on Aging (The Center at Medfield), One Icehouse Road, on Wednesday, November 4 at 5:30 PM.
His talk entitled "The Trial of Lizzie Borden: Whacks and Hacks" will consider one of America's most notorious and enduring murder mysteries.
Everyone – rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars, and laypeople –had an opinion about Lizzie Borden's guilt or innocence. Was she a cold-blooded murderess or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she, or didn't she?
An essential piece of American mythology, the popular fascination with the Borden murders has endured for more than one hundred years. Told and retold in every conceivable genre, the murders have secured a place in the American pantheon of mythic horror.
When Andrew and Abby Borden were brutally hacked to death in Fall River, Massachusetts in August 1892, the arrest of the couple's younger daughter Lizzie turned the case into international news and her murder trial into a spectacle unparalleled in American history. Reporters flocked to the trial.
Lizzie Borden was relentlessly scrutinized for signs of guilt or innocence. Everyone -- rich and poor, suffragists and social conservatives, legal scholars, and laypeople -- had an opinion about her guilt or innocence. Was she a cold-blooded killer or an unjustly persecuted lady? Did she, or didn't she?
The Honorable Dennis J. Curran, Justice, Massachusetts Superior Court (Ret.), speaks on famous legal cases in American History. He is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, the author of 42 book chapters and articles, and has taught at Tufts University, Roger Williams University of School of Law, and Brown University.
The event is free and open to the public. Registration is requested at: https://bit.ly/MedfieldLizzie.
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