- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- George Lawrence, Solicitor General for Georgia, and Donald Hollowell, NAACP attorney, discuss the opportunity for Preston Cobb, a fifteen-year old African American youth, to receive a new trial. Cobb was tried for the June 1, 1961 murder of Coleman Dumas, a white man on whose property Cobb's family resided. An all-white Jasper County jury convicted Cobb of murder on August 16, 1961 in a one-day trial. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair on September 22, 1961. Five days prior to his execution NAACP lawyer Donald Hollowell took Cobb's case and argued for a new trial on March 12, 1962. The federal court granted Cobb a new trial based on the issue of the racial composition of the jury. After a series of retrials and reversals, Cobb was sentenced to life in prison, but was eventually released from prison in 1968.
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hollowell, Donald L., 1917-2004
Lawrence, George Durwood, 1924- - Date of Original:
- 1962
- Subject:
- Trials (Murder)--Georgia--Jasper County
Murder--Georgia--Jasper County
Discrimination in criminal justice administration--Georgia--Jasper County
Discrimination in juvenile justice administration--Georgia--Jasper County
Discrimination in capital punishment--Georgia--Jasper County - People:
- Cobb, Preston--Trials, litigation, etc.
Lawrence, George Durwood, 1924-
Hollowell, Donald L., 1917-2004
Dumas, Coleman, -1961--Death and burial - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Jasper County, 33.31643, -83.68809
United States, Georgia, Jasper County, Monticello, 33.30485, -83.68323 - Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- George Lawrence, Solicitor General for Georgia, and Donald Hollowell, NAACP attorney, discuss the opportunity for Preston Cobb, a fifteen-year old African American youth, to receive a new trial. Cobb was tried for the June 1, 1961 murder of Coleman Dumas, a white man on whose property Cobb's family resided. An all-white Jasper County jury convicted Cobb of murder on August 16, 1961 in a one-day trial. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair on September 22, 1961. Five days prior to his execution NAACP lawyer Donald Hollowell took Cobb's case and argued for a new trial on March 12, 1962. The federal court granted Cobb a new trial based on the issue of the racial composition of the jury. After a series of retrials and reversals, Cobb was sentenced to life in prison, but was eventually released from prison in 1968.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn44444
- Metadata URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn44444
- Digital Object URL:
- https://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn44444
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn44444/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn44444, George Lawrence, Solicitor General for Georgia, and Donald Hollowell, NAACP attorney, discuss the opportunity for Preston Cobb, a fifteen-year old African American youth, to receive a new trial. Cobb was tried for the June 1, 1961 murder of Coleman Dumas, a white man on whose property Cobb's family resided. An all-white Jasper County jury convicted Cobb of murder on August 16, 1961 in a one-day trial. He was sentenced to die in the electric chair on September 22, 1961. Five days prior to his execution NAACP lawyer Donald Hollowell took Cobb's case and argued for a new trial on March 12, 1962. The federal court granted Cobb a new trial based on the issue of the racial composition of the jury. After a series of retrials and reversals, Cobb was sentenced to life in prison, but was eventually released from prison in 1968., WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 1021, 15:28/30:34, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 15 mins., 6 secs.): black-and-white, sound ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
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