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Assassination: Idaho's Trial of the Century

It was exactly 100 years ago this year that a "dream team" of famous attorneys gathered in Boise to play their part in Idaho's Trial of the Century.

It was a trial replete with colorful characters and dastardly deeds. Idaho's best lawyers, James Hawley and William Borah, matched wits with the brilliance of Chicago's Clarence Darrow and Denver's Edmund Richardson.

In the documentary spirit of The American Experience series, we have re-created portions of this remarkable story and the "struggle for the soul of America" that it represented.

Assassination: Idaho's Trial of the Century aired statewide on November 15th and again on Sunday, December 2, 2007. Be sure to visit our robust website which further illuminates key players in the drama. DVDs of the program will be sent to each of Idaho's public schools.

Idaho Public Television offers this program as the first of several productions in our proposed The Idaho Experience series.

The Idaho Homefront

By Jim Peck

WWII veteran Vern Baker

It was a golden time when you knew what it meant to be an American.

From Europe to the Pacific to the American West, it was the "great war" everyone fought. Idaho sent her sons to fight for America. Our boys became men. Our men became heroes. Heroes became legends. Not all of them came home.

This is the story of World War Two and the Homefront in Idaho. The story of the men and women and children who gave up the lives they had known, and who sometimes gave their lives. It is the story of what we remember . . . and what we must never forget.

Vern Baker holding his medal for valor

Learn about that time and about those who served, overseas and on the homefront, at our Idaho Homefront website.

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