Most say Richard Nixon is one of the most interesting political figures of the 20th century. Nixon began his long political career in 1947 when he was elected to the House of Representatives. During the course of his presidential campaign, Senator George McGovern had complained about the various number of “dirty tricks” performed by members of the Nixon administration during the campaign. Nixon resulted in ordering aides to harass Democratic party leaders. The Attorney General Mitchell would later call these “dirty tricks” the “White House horrors.” Senator George McGovern was especially disturbed by a curious incident on June 12, 1972, when five men were caught breaking into the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate
In 1971, Philip Zimbardo, then a professor of psychology at Stanford University, devised one of the most famous psychological experiments of the twentieth century. In what is known as the Stanford Prison Experiment, he assigned twenty-four young men roles as prisoners and guards, and observed the group dynamics that ensued. To his horror, the study had to be shut down after just six days because the guards were psychologically abusing the prisoners. When the Abu Ghraib story broke in 2004, Zimbardo immediately spotted parallels with his research. He later testified as an expert witness on behalf of Ivan "Chip" Frederick II, a former staff sergeant sentenced to eight years for his role in the abuse of detainees.
In November of 1969, Butterfield watched as Nixon erupted over a series of press reports by journalist Seymour M. Hersh. The president was informed about the massacre of hundreds of Vietnamese civilians by American soldiers in My Lai. The attack was led by Army Lieutenant William L. Calley and it was the best documented Vietnam war crime. Butterfield needed to be informed about anything that was of interest to the president. Therefore, he gathered numerous documents about the case into his documents.
Richard Brooks brings to life Truman Capote’s non-fiction novel “In Cold Blood”, in which he tries to open the murder case with an absolute honesty. Crime, which occurred in the heart of America shocked entire nation and it is still remains as a subject of discussion in fields of psychology and sociology. The story is based on a true facts, which makes it very powerful and best of its kind. Murder took place in a small town Holcomb, Kansas on november 15th, 1959, where four members of Clutter family were brutally murdered. Perry Smith and Dick Hickock planned the robbery based on the information they received from Dick’s friend about 10000 dollars being locked in a hidden safe in Clutter family’s house.
Means or ends? Machiavellian statement “the ends justifies the means” is very controversial in its own nature and even more when we start to think of it in a relation to a particular case. In the autumn of 2002, a 27-year-old Magnus Gäfgen kidnapped and eventually murdered a son of a wealthy German banker. As one would expect, Magnus Gäfgen was accused and sentenced to a life imprisonment the following year. However, surprisingly, he was not the only one accused in this case.
The entire event is brilliantly depicted in the highly acclaimed and award winning, “All the President 's Men” (1976) by Alan J. Pakula, based on a non-fiction book by the same name by the two journalists who investigated the scandal for The Washington Post. Another film that was incorrectly assumed to be based on the above scandal, as it was released shortly afterwards, was “The Conversation” (1974), which was written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola. The story is about a surveillance expert who refuses to hand over the tapes of a recording as he is worried it might lead to the murder of the couple under their watch. The movie won the Palme d 'Or at Cannes and was nominated for three Academy Awards. In 1995, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
This is similar to the government in Fahrenheit 451. On page thirty-one of the novel, Montag asks Captain Beatty what happened to a man whose library they had “fixed,” and the Captain says, “They took him screaming off to the asylum…Any man’s insane who thinks he can fool the government and us.” The government in Fahrenheit 451 is powerful and strict just like the government in “Harrison
In the film, the attacks reenacted were only of one's where a witness survived which was stated in the opening credits, “What follows is based on actual case files.” From 1968-1969, he committed five murders around the San Francisco Bay area and attempted even more. The infamous serial killer gained celebrity through the media because he sent letters to newspapers, police stations, and even some private citizens. The investigation was followed by reporters played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Downey Jr. and detectives played by Mark Ruffalo and Anthony Edwards. The investigation only lead to inconclusive findings. The movie is based on a book written by Robert Graysmith who was the cartoonist at the San Francisco Chronicle.
The Rodney King Riot happened in Los Angeles in the year of 1992. Rodney King was an African American male who was arrested on charges because of speeding, drunk driving, and refusing to stop his vehicle. Four police officers who have claimed to have witnessed King’s actions such as being high on drugs and was trying to attack them explains why they did what they did. A resident nearby by the name of George Holliday captured about 12 minutes of the attack on film. King was tasered, brutally beaten with side-handled batons, then forced to the ground to lie still which was where he was handcuffed.
For example, former Atlanta police officer Elton Augustin was sentenced to two years in prison for conspiring to accept bribes and lying to FBI agents. Between June 2007 and September 2007 Augustin and two other Atlanta police officers received over $10,000 to protect an illegal business. The nightclub in question posted the officers outside in the parking lot to intercept any incoming officers responding to calls at that location. In September 2007, the nightclub was shut down and the owner was apprehended for permit violations and running a business that promoted prostitution, drug sales, and gambling. Another form of misconduct is flouting.
Like the theme of Creep, there was a public and private part of raising illegal funds for Nixon. With Stans becoming the finance Cahir of CREEP, CREEP managed to raise nearly twenty million dollars. Nineteen well known corporations made illegal contributions to the campaign. To make things worse, “one and one third million dollars of the pre- April 7 contribution came from persons Nixon latter appointed as U.S. Ambassadors.” (36) The Section of CREEP which spear headed the break-in was the group in charge of gathering and leaking information about critics of the Nixon administration. The man who headed this operation was Gordon Liddy.
John Giglio was charged with passing forged money orders and sentenced to five years imprisonment. During the appeal, Giglio counsel discovered new evidence representing that the prosecutors had failed to reveal a promise made to its “key witness” that he wouldn’t be prosecuted if he testified for the government. The Court granted a certiorari to determine whether the evidence not revealed would require a retrial under the due process standards Napue v. Illinoi, 360 U.S. 264 (1959), and Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963). Evidence showed at trial, representatives at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. learned that Robert Taliento, key witness and co-conspirator, was a banker teller and also had cashed several forged money orders. He confessed to providing Giglio with a customer’s bank signature card used by John Giglio to forge $2,300 in money orders.
The Alger Hiss trial is recognizable throughout the entire United States as a trial that went down in history as the greatest. The trial involved Alger Hiss, a former State Department official who was convicted of perjury. Hiss was convicted of having decepted the jury under oath with his testimony about not being involved with the Soviet Union and the spying that was occurring within the United States government during World War 2. Hiss was caught in his own lies and was approximately in jail four years, yet he protested and fought for innocence in jail and after incarceration. The case against Hiss began in 1948, when Whittaker Chambers testified in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and to judge Samuel Kaufman,
In June 1972, five men carrying cameras and bugging equipment were arrested inside the Democratic National Committee 's offices in the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Police soon discovered that the burglars worked either directly or indirectly, for the presidential cabinet. President Nixon had stated he had no relation to this act. Political investigations began in February 1973; the Senate established a Committee to investigate the Watergate scandal. The public hearings of the Committee included the finding of secret white house tapes,the most incriminating one dubbed, Smoking gun revealing that he had taken part in the Watergate cover up. The supreme court had ordered Nixon to release more tapes only further incriminating him.
Charged in the murder of a local boxing legend, Tycorion Davis, 18, was arrested after a Crime Stoppers tip helped to put him behind bars. Former boxer O 'Neil "Supernova" Bell died as a result of a random street robbery, and police are seeking four men accused of his murder. The robbery occurred in southwest Atlanta after O 'Neil Bell stepped off a bus, right before the day of Thanksgiving. As a result of the robbery, Bell died when he attempted to fight back, and they left another person injured. Investigators of criminal law have called it an opportunistic crime, and police put out surveillance footage to solve the case.