Leopold & Loeb [videorecording] : love and murder in Chicago / a production of WTTW Chicago ; produced in cooperation with the Chicago Historical Society ; produced and written by Jay Shefsky.
Publisher: [Chicago] : Window to the World Communications, c2004.
Description: 1 videodisc (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject: Loeb, Richard A., 1905-1936 Trials, litigation, etc.
Franks, Bobby, 1909-1924.
Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.
Leopold, Nathan Freudenthal, 1904-1971 Trials, litigation, etc.
Murder Illinois Chicago Case studies.
Other titles: Chicago stories (Television program).
Credits: Camera, Roy D. Alan ; music composed and performed by Steve Rashid.
Performers: Chicago Stories host and senior editor John Callaway; Leon Despres, attorney and former Kenwood resident; Hal Higdon, author of Leopold and Loeb: the crime of the century; John Logan, playwright: Never the sinner; Armand Deutsch, possible victim; Ron Grossman, Chicago Tribune; Marion Stern, former Kenwood resident; Lila Weinberg, Darrow biographer; Leigh Bienen, co-author of Crimes of the century.
Summary: This episode of the award-winning Chicago stories series tells the story of the 1924 kidnapping and murder of 14-year-old Bobby Franks by Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold, brilliant and wealthy University of Chicago graduate students seeking the thrill of committing a "perfect" crime. Clarence Darrow was counsel for the defense.
