The trial of wealthy college students Leopold and Loeb, who murder a 14-year-old boy in 1924, sets off a national firestorm about morality and capital punishment.
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- Self - Narrator
- Self - Author of 'For the Thrill of It: Leopold, Loeb, and the Murder That Shocked Chicago'
- Self - Author of 'The Crime of the Century: The Leopold and Loeb Case'
- Self - Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
- Self
- Self - Historian Specialized in Childhood and Youth in the United States
- Self - Author of 'Clarence Darrow: Attorney for the Damned'
- Clarence Darrow