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The Bill of Rights: The Sixth Amendment, 2001
Item — Multiple Containers
Identifier: CC-37981-39864
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Richard Minsky bound a copy of The Run of His Life: The People v. O.J. Simpson with a black leather, left handed glove stained red to resemble blood on the fingertips. The first and last pages contain an illustration of Simpson putting on the glove at his trial. The defense played this as a "race card" that Minsky designed to fit the slogan" If the glove doesn't fit, you must acquit." The Sixth Amendment states, "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed..."Minsky notes that his was the most public trial in history, with many questions about the jury, witnesses and defense counsel. It occupied the television networks day and night. Before the trial began, the author wrote in The New Yorker that the defense would play the "race card" and claim Mark Fuhrman was a racist who...
Dates:
2001
The Bill of Rights: The Third Amendment, 2002
Item — Box 143: [Barcode: 31858072457967]
Identifier: CC-38803-40717
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The third amendment states, "No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law." The book is a copy of Seven Days in May by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II and is accompanied by a DVD of the movie in an attache case with a handcuff attached. According to Minsky's web-site, "The third amendment set a clear boundary on military authority. In this classic story the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is seeking to quarter himself in the White House."As Minsky notes, "Seven Days in May" by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey, with a DVD of the film starring Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas, directed by John Frankenheimer, screenplay by Rod Serling is pertinent to this amendment. The Third Amendment sets a clear boundary on military authority. In this classic story the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is...
Dates:
2002
The Thing, No. 18: Mike Mills - The Fabric of Events, 2013 Calendar, 2012
Item — Box 241: [Barcode: 31858072459369]
Identifier: CC-55153-9998951
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The Thing Quarterly is a periodical in the form of an object. It's like a magazine, except that each issue is conceived of by a different contributor and then published as a useful object. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates:
2012