60 YEARS AGO TODAY:
7/15/64 - Barry M Goldwater (Sen – R - AZ) is nominated for President by The Republican Party
Also on 7/15 - Dr. Sam Sheppard, who has been serving a life sentence in prison after being convicted in 1954 of the murder of his wife, was ordered released after ten years with the posting of $10,000 bail. U.S. District Judge Carl Weinman of Dayton, Ohio, decried that Sheppard's trial for murder had been a "mockery of justice" and that the doctor had been denied his constitutional right to a fair proceeding. Judge Weinman told Ohio authorities that they had 60 days to determine whether to try Dr. Sheppard again.
(It has long been speculated that the television series "The Fugitive" was loosely based on the case of Dr. Sam Sheppard.)
