LECTURE SERIES by Professor Ben Nelson

THE CRUCIBLE OF JUSTICE

Three Notorious Trials of the Roaring Twenties

The Sacco-Vanzetti Case

The Leopold-Loeb Trial

The Scopes "Evolution" Trial

Professor Ben Nelson offers a penetrating and lively commentary on

these three dramatic events. 

Sensational in their era, they continue to disturb and polarize into the 21st Century.

The issues raised in these cases involve some of the basic aspects

of American culture and politics.  The

fact that they are still flashpoint issues today prove their contemporary relevance.