I'm putting a plug in for that other defence lawyer who saved a family friend from execution. Clarence Darrow set up the defence for George Harsh, as he did for Leopold and Loeb several years earlier. George served 12 years on a Georgia chain gang, pardoned for a couple heroic acts, turned down offers from Mafia, joined the Royal Canadian Air Force and served with distinction during operations and notably as the security chief in Stalag Luft III for The Great Escape.
His autobiography "Lonesome Road" (Norton) Library Congress No. 69-14699 typically of George doesn't tell how he saved more than 100 Georgia black prisoners chained together in their cellblock during a fire. George wasn't doing well in an American veterans hospital after the war so my father and Wally Floody, RCAF Spitfire pilot and the tunnelling chief engineer, brought him back to Canada where he died in Sunnybrook Veterans Hospital in Toronto, January 24, 1980.
George is an unsung American hero. His book is a masterpiece.
