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Arts & Entertainment

The Law as Seen Through Film Series: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood (1967)

Alexandra Lehmann of Lehmann & Lehmann Legal Communications presents a screening and discussion of the 1967 film In Cold Blood starring Robert Blake, Scott Wilson and John Forsythe. The film, based on Truman Capote’s “non-fiction novel,” explores the 1959 murder of a respected Kansas farming family and the events leading up to Dick Hickock and Perry Smith’s conviction and execution. A discussion about the death penalty and the recent sentencing in Connecticut for the murder of the Petit family will follow the screening.

Directed by Richard Brooks, 134 minutes.

Free. In the Budarz Theater.

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