Syllabus

Reading Schedule

Handouts & Assignments

Study Questions

Paper Topics

Internet Links

Here are some links to websites dealing either directly with the Leopold and Loeb case, or to sites dealing with some of the topics from our syllabus.  If you run across other sites for this page, please let me know and will add them.

Student-Produced Web Pages (Autumn 2001 class)

Death Penalty Philosophies

Sites related to The Leopold and Loeb case

http://www.leopoldandloeb.com/

The site name says all you need to know.  A very comprehensive site.  A decent bibliography, and the transcripts of letters from Leopold and Loeb. There's a message board for you to communicate with other people who have studied this case. 

A summary of the facts of the case with photographs of the key players and a brief bibliography. This is as good a place to begin as any.

A great site. Part of a famous trials website authored by Prof. Douglas Linder of the University of Missouri at Kansas City. A fantastic bibliography, great pictures, and a discussion of many aspects of the case.

Authored by Scott Newman, this site focusses on the treatment of the case in the Chicago newspapers at the time. There are links to accounts of the case in the Chicago Daily News from the summer of 1924.  A fantastic resource.

A photograph of Bobby Franks' grave in the Franks family crypt in Rosehill Cemetery in Chicago.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/London/Organizations/jl_society.html

The homepage of the Jack London Society

The homepage of the Jack London collection at the Peters Research Center of Centenary College in Louisiana.  The stated goal of the Peters Research Center is to become "the largest repository of materials related to Jack London and his world."

 An annotated list of websites devoted to London and his writings

Sites related to Compulsion (the Meyer Levin novel and the Richard Fleischer movie)

A synopsis of the movie

http://homepages.together.net/~theatre/rope/film.htm

A fascinating explanation of the intricate filming techniques used in the production of the movie.

Roger Ebert's review of the movie

John Hartl's review from film.com

Steve Davis' review from the Austin Chronicle

Hal Hinson's review from The Washington Post

Desson Howe's review from The Washington Post

Peter Travers' review from Rolling Stone

An unsigned review from the "Craig's Gay Video Hut"