The Illustrated Courtroom showcases five award-winning artists' momentous works and compelling insider stories. Witnesses to history, they have captured some of the most consequential courtroom dramas of the last 50+ years. Legendary defendants include Charles Manson, the New York Black Panthers, Jack Ruby (who killed President John F. Kennedy's assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald), kidnapped heiress Patty Hearst, David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz, mob kingpin John Gotti, pop icon Michael Jackson, O.J. Simpson, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and Martha Stewart. In this book, United States Supreme Court Justices share the pages with embezzlers like Bernard Madoff, terrorists and assassins, notably James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King, Jr.) and Mark David Chapman (John Lennon). Catnip for fans of true crime, art and law alike. 254 pages,150 illustrations.