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The Execution of Burton Abbott | Bancroft Microfilm

News21

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Produced by: Matt Buxton, Angela Kilduff, Amanda Dyer, Steve Saldivar

tags: HTML5, News21, 2010, execution, archives, newspapers, microfilm

In 1957, UC Berkeley student Burton Abbott was tried, convicted and executed for the kidnapping and killing of a 14-year-old girl. The case was based on purely circumstantial evidence, and a created a media frenzy in its day. This tool allows users to look at the news articles leading up to the execution, and vote on whether they thought Abbott was guilty of his crime. ( This project was done entirely in HTML5, no Flash used. )

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