- Title: F-3122
- Summary: THE SHEPPARD CASE: THE SAM SHEPPARD MURDER CASE OF 1954. CONFLICT BETWEEN THE RIGHTS OF THE PRESS AND THE RIGHTS OF THE ACCUSED TO A FAIR TRIAL BY JURY. EMPHASIS PLACED UPON THE CONSTITUTIONAL ISSUES INVOLVED AND THE 1966 SUPREME COURT DECISION WHICH ESTABLISHED GUIDELINES FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE ACCUSED FROM PREJUDICIAL PUBLICITY. NEWSPAPER ARTICLES, TELEVISION VIDEO TAPES AND NEWSREEL INTERVIEWS OF THOSE INVOLVED IN THE SHEPPARD CASE.
- Description:01:09:25 - JULY 4, 1954 ISSUE OF THE CLEVELAND PRESS HEADLINE "DOCTOR'S WIFE MURDERED IN BAY VILLAGE" MARILYN SHEPPARD. 01:09:41 - SAM SHEPPARD'S ACCOUNT IS READ WITH A STILL OF SHEPPARD SHOWN 01:10:00 - REENACTMENT OF THE CRIME, MAN RUNNING UPSTAIRS TO THE BEDROOM IS STRUCK FROM BEHIND, MAN COMES TO, WIFE IS DEAD, RUSHES INTO SON'S ROOM, HE IS UNHARMED, HEARS A NOISE DOWNSTAIRS, RUNS DOWN AND OUTSIDE CHASING A FIGURE DOWN THE PATH TO THE BEACH. TACKLES A MAN FROM BEHIND, IS CHOKED, AWAKENS WITH HIS FEET IN THE WATER THEN WALKS UP THE STAIRS AND BACK INTO THE BEDROOM. 01:11:37 - NEWSPAPER STAND ON STREET CORNER. CLEVELAND PRESS HEADLINE "MARILYN'S FATHER WILL TAKE STAND" NEWSPAPER FOLLOWING THE MURDER CASE. PEOPLE BUY NEWSPAPERS FROM THE CORNER NEWS STAND 01:11:48 - MONTAGE PEOPLE FOLLOWING THE NEWS, PEOPLE READ NEWSPAPERS, WATCH TELEVISION COVERAGE OF THE SAM SHEPPARD MURDER CASE. PEOPLE WATCH BANK OF TV SETS IN ELECTRONICS STORE WINDOW. NEWS COVERAGE OF THE MURDER CASE 01:12:27 - POV WATCHING 1960s NEWS CAST REPORTER TALKS ABOUT THE SHEPPARD CASE 01:12:52 - EXTERIOR SUBURBAN HOME. POLICE SEARCH THE GROUNDS OF THE SHEPPARD HOME FOR CLUES 01:13:18 - EXTERIOR BAY VIEW HOSPITAL 01:13:28 - CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "DOCTOR'S NECK REPORTED BROKEN" 01:13:48 - SAM SHEPPARD IS WHEELED OUT OF THE HOSPITAL WITH NECK BRACE ACCOMPANIED BY THE POLICE TO ATTEND WIFE'S FUNERAL 01:13:58 - MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES FOLLOWING THE SHEPPARD MURDER CASE 01:14:42 - SAM SHEPPARD IN NECK BRACE ARRIVING AT INQUEST HELD AT THE LOCAL HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM. NORMANDY SCHOOL. COUNTY CORONER DR. GERBER 01:14:56 - MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES FOLLOWING THE MURDER CASE. 01:15:02 - SAM SHEPPARD INQUEST, 1954. 01:15:12 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ABOUT THE CASE. "MYSTERY WOMAN SAYS SHEPPARD VISIT HER ON LOS ANGELES TRIP" 01:15:25 - WOMAN LINKED TO SHEPPARD IS ESCORTED OFF PLANE BY POLICE 01:15:40 - MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES FOLLOWING THE CASE 01:15:49 - 1954, SHEPPARD IS ARRESTED, TAKEN AWAY IN HANDCUFFS 01:16:05 - TILT DOWN BUILDING WHERE SHEPPARD TRIAL IS HELD. ON THE STREET IS A 1950s NBC TELEVISION REMOTE VAN 01:16:09 - NEWS CAMERAS SET UP ON THE STREET IN FRONT OF THE BUILDING. JUDGE ARRIVES AND SPEAKS BRIEFLY TO THE REPORTERS. 01:16:26 - FOOTAGE AND STILL MONTAGE OF SHEPPARD ENTERING THE COURT HOUSE 01:16:40 - STILLS, SHEPPARD'S LAWYER WILLIAM CORRIGAN & JUDGE BLYTHIN 01:17:03 - SHOTS OF THE JURORS, JURY IN THE SAM SHEPPARD CASE 01:17:10 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "JURYMEN LISTED IN MURDER TRIAL" 01:17:15 - JURORS LEAVING THE COURTHOUSE 01:17:23 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINE FROM THE CLEVELAND PRESS "BUT WHO WILL SPEAK FOR MARILYN?" 01:17:31 - SAM SHEPPARD MURDER TRIAL FOOTAGE 01:17:41 - CLEVELAND PRESS NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "GERBER TELLS OF SURGERY TOOL IMPRINT ON MARILYN'S PILLOW" DAMAGING STORY 01:17:56 - MONTAGE WITNESSES. WOMAN WEARS 1960s FUR COAT, NERVOUS WITNESS ON THE STAND LOOSENS HIS TIE. 01:18:06 - CLEVELAND PRESS NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "SAYS MARILYN CALLED SAM A JECKLE-HYDE" 01:18:07 - MEMBERS OF THE PRESS, NEWS CAMERAMEN AT THE SHEPPARD TRIAL BANK OF REPORTERS COVERING THE CASE 01:18:15 - DOOR MARKED PRIVATE IS CLOSED 01:18:18 - NEWSPAPER ARTICLE "MAHON, BLYTHIN WIN COMMON PLEAS JOBS" 01:18:22 - STILL 01:18:28 - FEMALE INTERVIEWED BY REPORTER "HE'S EXTREMELY GOOD LOOKING..IN PROFILE HE GREATLY RESEMBLES MARLON BRANDO" FEMALE JUROR MORE INTERESTED IN HIS LOOKS THAN IN JUSTICE 01:19:06 - NEWSPAPER REPORTER PAUL HOLMES INTERVIEWED BY REPORTER ABOUT THE SAM SHEPPARD MURDER CASE 01:20:07 - CLEVELAND PRESS NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "STATE ASKS FOR DEATH FOR DR. SAM" 01:20:12 - JURY WALKS UPSTAIRS AND INTO DELIBERATION ROOM 01:20:16 - MONTAGE NEWSPAPER COVERAGE OF THE CASE. HEADLINE "JURORS DEBATE DR. SAM'S FATE JUDGE GIVES LIFE-DEATH CHARGE" "JURY LOCKED UP ANOTHER NIGHT" 01:20:25 - JUDGE ENTERS COURTROOM AND TAKES HIS SEAT. READS JURY'S VERDICT "NOT GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE BUT GUILTY OF MURDER IN THE SECOND DEGREE" 01:20:47 - REPORTERS RUNNING DOWN HALLWAY PUSHING EACH OTHER TO GET BEST POSITION TO INTERVIEW SHEPPARD 01:20:55 - CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER NEWSPAPER HEADLINE "SHEPPARD GUILTY, GETS LIFE; INNOCENT, DOCTOR INSISTS" 01:21:04 - SHEPPARD IS ESCORTED INTO JAIL CELL 01:21:18 - NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL "A TRAGIC EPISODE ENDS" 01:21:30 - SHEPPARD BEING TRANSFERRED FROM THE COUNTY JAIL. SHEPPARD IN THE BACK SEAT OF CAR ON HIGHWAY 01:21:45 - SHEPPARD ESCORTED INTO OHIO STATE PENITENTIARY SURROUNDED BY REPORTERS AND CAMERAMEN 01:21:53 - HS PRISON YARD, PRISONERS. GROUP OF BLACK PRISONERS WALKING 01:22:17 - F. LEE BAILEY TALKING ABOUT THE CASE "...IT JUST DIDN'T SEEM RIGHT TO LET AN INNOCENT MAN TO LANGUISH AWAY IN PRISON WITHOUT EVEN TRYING TO GET HIM OUT..." 01:23:11 - OHIO STATE PENITENTIARY EXTERIOR, SHEPPARD & LAWYERS INCLUDING F. LEE BAILEY WALKING SURROUNDED BY PRESS AND CAMERAMEN 01:23:20 - SAM SHEPPARD GIVES PRESS CONFERENCE. F. LEE BAILEY. SHEPPARD TALKS ABOUT THE DEATH OF HIS MOTHER DURING THE TRIAL "HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST TO GET HER BACK?" 01:24:27 - SHEPPARD AND HIS NEW "PRISON PEN PAL" BRIDE 2 DAYS AFTER HIS RELEASE. COUPLE GETTING OFF UNITED AIRPLANE SURROUNDED BY THE PRESS. MOBBED BY NEWSMEN. NEW BRIDE INTERVIEWED 01:25:07 - F. LEE BAILEY INTERVIEWED "OUR SYSTEM HAS SOME SERIOUS FLAWS IN IT" 01:25:40 - CU SHEPPARD AND NEW BRIDE IN CAR BEING INTERVIEWED 01:25:57 - F LEE BAILEY TALKS TO THE CAMERA CONCERNING THE CASE 01:26:16 - WINTER 1965, SNOWING, F LEE BAILEY ENTERING THE SUPREME COURT. SUPREME COURT GRANTED A NEW TRIAL 11/66. ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM SAXTBE ARGUING THE CASE FOR THE STATE OF OHIO. 1960s NEWS CAMERAS 01:26:31 - OHIO ATTORNEY GENERAL WILLIAM SAXBE INTERVIEWED 01:27:05 - WINTER EXTERIOR SUPREME COURT 01:27:10 - LOUIS CLIFFORD, CITY EDITOR CLEVELAND PRESS INTERVIEWED 01:27:50 - MAN-ON-THE-STREET INTERVIEWED "IT'S PRETTY HARD FOR ONE VOICE TO OVERCOME MILLIONS OF VOICES REPRESENTED BY THE CIRCULATION OF NEWSPAPERS 01:28:01 - LOUIS CLIFFORD INTERVIEW CONTINUES 01:28:35 - MAN-ON-THE-STREET INTERVIEW CONTINUES 01:29:28 - STILL, SUPREME COURT JUSTICES. 1966 01:29:48 - PORTIONS OF THE DECISION READ WITH JURORS ENTERING THE COURT & NEWSPAPER HEADLINES REGARDING THE CASE 01:30:43 - SHEPPARD ESCORTED INTO THE COURTROOM 01:30:55 - SHEPPARD CASE JURORS LEAVING THE COURTHOUSE 01:31:04 - MONTAGE NEWSPAPER HEADLINES ABOUT THE JURORS. PHOTOS AND ADDRESSES GIVEN IN THE PAPER 01:31:21 - SAM SHEPPARD IN FIRST TRIAL WITH NECK BRACE 01:31:28 - NEWSPAPER HEADLINES AND STILLS OF SHEPPARD CASE 01:31:58 - LOW ANGLE CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING 01:32:06 - SAM SHEPPARD SMOKING A CIGAR ENTERS CRIMINAL COURT BUILDING FOR RETRIAL 01:32:18 - JUDGE SPEAKS ABOUT THE TRIAL, "THERE WILL BE NO CAMERAS OR SOUND EQUIPMENT OF ANY SORT.." 01:32:44 - SAM SHEPPARD RETRIAL, JURY GOING IN TO DELIBERATE 01:32:56 - SHEPPARD MOBBED BY PRESS AND CAMERA AFTER RETRIAL, FOUND NOT GUILTY 11/66 01:34:13 - F LEE BAILEY INTERVIEWED, "MY REACTION IS THAT THE SYSTEM PAID OFF.."
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1954
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1950s
- File Name: F-3122