It. Here at busboys, we like to have conversations that others are not having, and this is one of them. I would like to give you an overview. If you have cell phones, please take photos but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. We will have the book for sale. We have them or sale currently. If you want to, i employ you to look through it and have alan sign it. We have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the top of ghosts of Sheridan Circle for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Dr. Mcpherson thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is literally the scene of this crime. The institute for policy studies is very impor
Prof. Fields good afternoon. We are going to talk about jean harris. We are going to talk about this case in a couple of different sections. First, we will talk about the case itself. As we talk about this case, i want you to keep two things in the back of your mind. We will come back at the end of class to talk about these. The first is, i want you to think about how this case is both similar and different from the Lizzie Borden murder trials from 1893. About 100 years earlier. The second is a question of, why do you want know who is a board is, and raise your hand if you heard about the jean harris murder trial before this class. You had all heard of Lizzie Borden, right . I want to talk about why some cases remain more famous than others. Especially because everybody talks about cases as if they are this case of the century, the trial of the century. We will begin with opening statements. The reason we are doing that is that most of america really got to know our alleged perpetrator