Free Press/Fair Trial

Duration: 30

Year Published: 1973

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Examines the conflict that often arises between the constitutional right to a free press and the similarly guaranteed right to a fair trial. Discusses former Vice President Agnew's claim that the press convicted him in the public's eye before he went to trial. Debates the extensive press coverage given to the sensational mass murders which occurred in Houston during the summer of 1973 and how, in this case, the media may have denied the defendants their right to a fair trial.

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