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Doonesbury. We're outside the courthouse now, talking to network trial artist Erich Newton on his lunch break ...
| Content Provider | Library of Congress - Photographs |
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| Spatial Coverage | United States |
| Description | Four-panel comic strip shows Ginnie, a black woman, watching a report on the Patty Hearst trial on television. A reporter interviews a network trial artist saying, "Would it be fair to say that the use of tasteful charcoal renderings is very helpful in dignifying these otherwise hysterical proceedings?" The artist agrees, noting that "in this sketch here of Patty breaking down under cross-examination, I only used a light watercolor wash to suggest her anguish." When the reporter responds, "Amazing! She looks so ... so innocent!" the artist replies, "Well, that's the muted pinks, Bob -- trompe l'oeil, really ..." After heiress Patty Hearst, whohad been kidnapped by a radical group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army, joined them in a bank robbery, she was captured and put on trial. The trial was a media circus. Trudeau skewers the efforts of reporters to turn the most mundane features into matters of significance, but he also suggests that people tend to equate light skin with innocence. |
| File Format | JPG / JPEG |
| Language | English |
| Part of Series | Cartoon Drawings |
| Requires | HTML5 supported browser |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Television broadcasting--United States--1970-1980. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Racism--United States--1970-1980. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Hearst, Patricia,--1954---Trials, litigation, etc. |
| Subject Domain (in LCSH) | Judicial proceedings--United States--1970-1980. |
| Content Type | Image |
| Resource Type | Photograph |
