GREAT CRIMES AND TRIALS OF THE 20TH CENTURY Volumes 1-5

Columbia. New in New dust jacket. 2000. Non-Book. Video Tape; 39 oz.; New Factory Sealed Gift Quality 5 Volume Set VHS. Volume 1: Murph the Surf - It wasn't the perfect crime. In fact, the 1964 robbery of precious gems from a New York museum was most noteworthy for the amateur tactics of the trio responsible. Volume 2: The Massacre of the Tsar - The Massacre of the Tsar and the Imperial Royal Family 1917. Revolution erupted in Russia and the reign of the Tsars, absolute rulers for more that two centuries, was over. Volume 3: John Wayne Gacy - John Wayne Gacy was the model citizen. Active in the business community, he even dressed as a clown to entertain the local children. But detectives investigating a boy's disappearance began to uncover the secret life that was buried along with the corpses in Gacy's basement. Olume 4: Trial of Adolf Eichmann - Of all the Nazi leaders who escaped after the Second World War, none was hated more than Adof Eichmann. He was one of the Nazi's chief executioners, and the evil mind which devised the 'Final Solution' - the attempt to exterminate the Jewish race from Nazi occupied Europe. Justice, however, lay in wait for Eichmann. Hitler and the Nuremberg Trials - 1945. As the Second World War was reaching its climax and the German army had surrendered, bringing to trial the men who had cause the most heinous miseries of war ever committed on humanity produce what would undoubtedly be the trial of the century. Volume 5: The Assassination of Martin Luther King - 1968. On the 3rd of April, 39-year-old Dr. Marin Luther King, Jr. Arrived in Memphis, Tennessee to lend his support to a local strike. In less that 24 hours, he would be pronounced dead, the victim of an assassin's bullet. The Ku Klux Klan Killings - Founded originally in the aftermath of the American Civil War as a defender of white southerners against the revenge of freed black slaves, this secret society, notorious for its savage methods and white hooded costume, became openly racist against Jews and other minorities, as well as blacks, in the 1920's and 1960's. .