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Famous Jury Trials (1949)

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Each episode reenacts a real historic court case. The show was originally on radio then moved to television. It presents the facts of each trial in a dramatic format.

dramatizededucationalhistoricalseriousfactualrestrainedjournalistic

What happens

Famous Jury Trials is a dramatized court show that first appeared on radio, followed by television, and then in the movies. The series ran on radio from 1936 through 1949, then on television from 1949 through 1952, and finally in a movie in 1971. On television, it aired on the DuMont Television Network. Episodes re-enacted historic actual court cases. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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