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Explore the true story of a famous crime that inspired Anatomy of a Murder
Just after midnight on July 31, 1952, Army Lieutenant Coleman A. Petersen walked into the Lumberjack Tavern in Big Bay, Michigan, and shot Mike Chenoweth in retaliation for an assault on his wife. This revenge killing rocked the small lumber town in the Upper Peninsula, and the trial that followed inspired a best-selling novel and an Academy Award-nominated motion picture, Anatomy of a Murder.
Using the testimony taken from trial transcripts, the police investigator, and the killer, author Patrick J. Baker shares the real story of a sensational murder trial that captivated the Midwest and the aftermath that drew the eyes of the nation.
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The photographs used in this pictorial history are part of an archive of early California transportation and industrial imagery being put together by Tony Baker. Baker is an amateur historian, researcher, and archivist living in Ventura, California. The a
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