Murder, Honor and Law
Subtitle: Four Virginia Homicides from Reconstruction to the Great Depression (The American South Series)
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: June 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780813922089
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; American history: from c 1900 -; Crime & criminology; Media studies; Social history; 20th century; c 1800 to c 1900; True Crime / Espionage; Murder - General; History; History: American; USA; Virginia; United States; Murder; United States - General; Press coverage; Social life and customs
First sentence: ON NOVEMBER 24, 1868, Henry Rives Pollard, the publisher and editor of the Richmond weekly Southern Opinion, was shot from ambush as he neared the office of his paper.