Marilyn Church Courtroom Drawings
name: label: Creator
content: Church, Marilyn
label: Names
content: Black Liberation Army
label: Names
content: FALN.
label: Names
content: WorldCom (Firm).
label: Names
content: Berkowitz, David Richard, 1953-
label: Names
content: Carter, Rubin, 1937-
label: Names
content: Chapman, Mark David
label: Names
content: Combs, Sean John
label: Names
content: Galella, Ron
label: Names
content: Hinckley, John, Jr.
label: Names
content: Kennedy, Caroline, 1957-
label: Names
content: Milken, Michael
label: Names
content: Mitchell, John N. (John Newton), 1913-1988
label: Names
content: Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994
label: Names
content: Quinlan, Karen Ann
label: Names
content: Shakur, Tupac, 1971-1996
label: Names
content: Shields, Brooke
label: Names
content: Stans, Maurice H., 1908-1998
label: Names
content: Stewart, Martha
label: Names
content: Vicious, Sid
label: Names
content: Westmoreland, William C. (William Childs), 1914-
label: Names
content: Whitehead, Mary Beth
label: Names
content: Williams, Harrison A.
topic: label: Topic
content: Trials (Murder)
label: Topic
content: Trials (Sex crimes)
label: Topic
content: Trials -- New York (N.Y.)
label: Topic
content: World Trade Center Bombing, New York (N.Y.), 1993
label: Topic
content: Trials (Assassination)
label: Topic
content: Trials (Assault and battery)
label: Topic
content: Surrogate mothers
label: Topic
content: Terrorism -- United States
label: Topic
content: Trials (Conspiracy)
label: Topic
content: Trials (Attempted murder)
label: Topic
content: Trials (Bribery)
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content: Central Park Jogger Rape Trial -- 1990 -- New York (N.Y.)
label: Topic
content: Courtroom art
label: Topic
content: Trials (Malpractice)
label: Topic
content: Trials (Custody of children)
label: Topic
content: Courts -- New York (N.Y.)
label: Topic
content: Fertilization in vitro
label: Topic
content: Courtroom artists -- New York (N.Y.)
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: Collection donated by Marilyn Church in 2008.
creator: label: Creator
content: Church, Marilyn
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content: Marilyn Church Courtroom Drawings
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: New York-based courtroom artist.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.5 Cubic feet (3 map-folders)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1975-2004.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1137
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Courtroom illustrations
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: 1 series.
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Collection is unprocessed.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Courtroom illustrations
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Thirty-eight courtroom drawings by artist Marilyn Church. The drawings depict scenes from some of the most famous and notorious cases in the city of New York: Tupac Shakur's 1994 trial for sexual abuse; Sean John Combs's 2001 trial for assault and weapons violations; Sid Vicious's (John Simon Ritchie) pre-trial hearing for murder in 1978; Rubin "Hurricane" Carter's 1976 re-trial for murder; John Hinckley, Jr.'s 1982 trial for attempting to assassinate President Ronald Reagan; Mark David Chapman's 1981 trial for the murder of John Lennon; Kevin King's 1982 trial for harassing Caroline Kennedy; photographer Ron Galella's trial for stalking Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis; Brooke Shields's 1981 case against photographer Gary Gross; David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz's 1978 murder trial; the 1990 trial of five youths charged with assaulting a jogger in Central Park; Bernhard Goetz's 1987 trial for attempted murder and assault; Michael Milken's 1990 trial for securities violations; the 2002 trial of executives of WorldCom; Martha Stewart's 2004 trial for conspiracy and obstruction of justice charges; John Gotti's 1992 trial for racketeering, murder and numerous other charges; Joseph Quinlan's petition to the court to discontinue keeping his daughter, Karen Ann Quinlan, alive by means of a respirator; the 1978 negligence lawsuit of a Florida couple named Del Zio against Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center over one of the first attempts at conceiving a "test tube baby"; the 1987 custody dispute regarding "Baby M", who was born to a surrogate mother, Mary Beth Whitehead; the 1974 trial of John Mitchell and Maurice Stans for their roles in the Watergate conspiracy; New Jersey Senator Harrison A. Williams's 1981 trial for conspiracy and bribery following the FBI's "Abscam" sting operation; General William Westmoreland's 1982 lawsuit against CBS; the FALN's (Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional) 1997 hearing on charges of terrorism; the 1983-1984 trial of several members of the Black Liberation Army for robbery of a Brinks armored car (a series of trials that came to be referred to as the "Brinks trials"); the 1993 trial of four defendants in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; and the "Landmarks Terror Trial", in which ten Arab immigrants were tried for a plot to blow up a wide range of New York City landmarks.