Anthony Eden In Ussr

Anthony Eden has left Berlin after Germany pushes for the right to build up its military. He travels to Moscow next. The show imagines what happened in private meetings between Eden and Joseph Stalin. At the Lamson murder trial, a doctor tests a procedure on himself so he can give honest testimony about what he saw. Eleanor Roosevelt speaks up for Frances Perkins, who people have been treating badly. In Alabama, the trial of the Scotsboro Boys ends with a guilty verdict and a death sentence. However, the Supreme Court says the trial was unfair because the boys were denied equal treatment under the law, so the court cancels the conviction. Writer Carl Cromer argues that the boys should still face execution in the electric chair. Giulio Gatti-Casazza, who ran the Metropolitan Opera, has stepped down from his job.