{"id":20384,"date":"2024-10-15T10:57:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T15:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/?p=20384"},"modified":"2024-10-17T12:26:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-17T17:26:33","slug":"the-pursuit-of-justice-evidence-from-our-special-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.lib.utk.edu\/news\/2024\/10\/the-pursuit-of-justice-evidence-from-our-special-collections\/","title":{"rendered":"The Pursuit of Justice: Evidence from our Special Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Courtroom drawings from the trial of notorious mass murderer \u201cSon of Sam\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

The path to justice can be dynamic, tumultuous, and, at times, elusive. Rare books and manuscripts from UT Libraries\u2019 Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives highlight some difficult chapters in our society\u2019s quest to dispense justice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The materials, currently on display on the first floor of Hodges Library, recall several infamous crimes. There\u2019s a wanted poster for James Earl Ray, who assassinated Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1968. There\u2019s a handwritten letter from Byron de la Beckwith, who murdered civil rights activist Medgar Evers in 1963.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Some good guys are featured as well, such as Estes Kefauver, the US Senator from Tennessee who led a series of investigative hearings into organized crime in the 1950s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many of the materials in the display are from a collection of manuscripts and rare books donated to Special Collections by best-selling crime writer Patricia Cornwell. They include courtroom drawings from the trials of mass murderers Charles Manson (leader of the Manson Family cult) and David Berkowitz (known as the Son of Sam).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Courtroom drawings from the trial of Patty Hearst<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

There are courtroom drawings from the 1976 trial of Patty Hearst. Hearst, the daughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, was convicted of participating in a bank robbery carried out by an urban guerilla group called the Symbionese Liberation Army.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rare books on view from the Patricia Cornwell Rare Book Collection include a number of early works on forensics, such as a 1663 manual on poisons and a contemporaneous account of some notorious 18th-century murderers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A Discourse of Poysons (1663) and other works on forensics<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Also from the Libraries\u2019 rare book collection are crime novels coauthored by William Bass, former head of UT\u2019s Forensic Anthropology Center as well as the Anthropology Research Facility \u2014 nicknamed \u201cThe Body Farm\u201d \u2014 after one of Patricia Cornwell\u2019s novels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Materials on crime and justice will be on display in the Elaine Altman Evans Exhibit Area, first floor of the John C. Hodges Library, throughout the fall semester.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The path to justice can be dynamic, tumultuous, and, at times, elusive. Rare books and manuscripts from UT Libraries\u2019 Betsey B. Creekmore Special Collections and University Archives highlight some difficult chapters in our society\u2019s quest to dispense justice. The materials, currently on display on the first floor of Hodges Library, recall several infamous crimes. 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