Due process of law denied

Teaching Film Custodians classroom film of excerpts from the 1942 Twentieth Century-Fox feature film, “The Ox-Bow Incident”. Prepared for school use by the Audio-Visual Committee of the National Council for the Social Studies. Dramatizes the dangers of decisions based on emotion and of denying Constitutional rights of an individual. Portrays the lynching of three innocent men by Nevada townspeople in 1885 when an unsubstantiated report of a murder results in the formation of an illegal vigilante group.
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