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Murder, Honor, and Law: Four Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression

Murder, Honor, and Law: Four Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression

Hamm, Richard F.

Hardcover

Series: American South

Civil War Period (1850-1877)True Crime

ISBN10: 0813922070
ISBN13: 9780813922072
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: Jun 29 2003
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.46
Language: English

In 1868 a scion of one of the leading families of Richmond, Virginia, ambushed and killed the city's most controversial journalist over an article that had dishonored the killer's family. In 1892 a Democratic politician killed a crusading Danville minister after a dispute at the polls. In 1907 a former judge shot to death the son of the Nelson County sheriff for an alleged rape, and in 1935 an Appalachian schoolteacher stood accused of killing her father by beating him with a shoe. All of these killers stood trial; two were convicted and two were acquitted. These cases attracted extensive press coverage, and journalists became not only recorders of the stories but integral parts of them, constructing the meaning of the events as they occurred and blurring the lines between reporter and reported.

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