Entertainment & Arts
There’s an extraordinary moment in Rubicon Theatre’s in-the-round staging of “Clarence Darrow” when the legendary attorney strides into the audience to plead for the Sweets, a black family charged with murder after defending their home from a white mob.
June 3, 2016
Books
The complex defense lawyer is examined in enlightening detail.
June 26, 2011
Leslie Nielsen moves from parody to drama in portrayal of Clarence Darrow.
April 16, 1998
“READING and experience have taught me that when governments prepare for war, the first unit they mobilize is the liar’s brigade,” wrote Clarence Darrow in “The Story of My Life,” which is extracted in the new collection “The Essential Words and Writings of Clarence Darrow” (Modern Library: 256 pp., $14.95 paper).
June 24, 2007
World & Nation
Clarence Darrow Attorney for the Damned John A.
Clarence Darrow, now remembered mostly as the hero of the Scopes “Monkey” trial, dramatized in “Inherit the Wind,” was famous in his own day as labor’s lawyer.
May 9, 1993
Social historian and author Arthur Weinberg, probably best known for his biographical works on legendary attorney Clarence Darrow, died Saturday at a Chicago hospital.
Jan. 31, 1989
Leslie Nielsen as Clarence Darrow?
Sept. 28, 1999
Ventura County playgoers have several choices before them during the next few weeks, none more strongly recommended than the opportunity to see Ernest Huntley’s portrayal of “Clarence Darrow,” now in production by Ventura’s Plaza Players.
March 10, 1994