7-31-1957 Leopold Press Conference
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Nathan Freudenthal Leopold Jr. speaks at a press conference at Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois on July 31, 1957.; University of Chicago students Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb were imprisoned for the kidnap and murder of fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks in 1924. They committed the murder in order to demonstrate their intellectual superiority, which they believed made them capable of carrying out the "perfect crime."
Credits
Frank Koza (filmmaker); Nathan Leopold (participant)
Complete catalog record
Cfa collection: Frank Koza Collection
Notes: The film begins with several exterior shots of the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois and then a shot of Nathan Leopold as he enters a room prepared for a press conference. Leopold thanks Governor Stratton and the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board for their review of his case and then expresses his intention to request a rehearing of his petition for conditional release under parole. When asked about his plans if paroled, he indicates an aspiration to work as a medical technician in a church hospital in Puerto Rico. The film concludes as the camera explores the layout of a prison cell and the door slides shut.; Leopold was released on parole on March 13, 1958. Shortly thereafter, he began working as a lab technician at a hospital operated by the Brethren Service Commission in Puerto Rico.
Distributed by: Telenews (Firm)
Subjects: Prisons; Crimes; Murders
Places: North America > United States > Illinois
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 100 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/13623
Notes: The film begins with several exterior shots of the Stateville Correctional Center in Crest Hill, Illinois and then a shot of Nathan Leopold as he enters a room prepared for a press conference. Leopold thanks Governor Stratton and the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board for their review of his case and then expresses his intention to request a rehearing of his petition for conditional release under parole. When asked about his plans if paroled, he indicates an aspiration to work as a medical technician in a church hospital in Puerto Rico. The film concludes as the camera explores the layout of a prison cell and the door slides shut.; Leopold was released on parole on March 13, 1958. Shortly thereafter, he began working as a lab technician at a hospital operated by the Brethren Service Commission in Puerto Rico.
Distributed by: Telenews (Firm)
Subjects: Prisons; Crimes; Murders
Places: North America > United States > Illinois
Language: English
Cfa elements: Print, 100 feet
Cfa records: https://collections.chicagofilmarchives.org/Detail/objects/13623
Sources
- Chicago Film Archives · record ↗ — title, year, creator, length, format, color, sound, genre, description, credits, catalog record, video
Record added 2026-11-08 21:25:13