Doonesbury. We're outside the courthouse now, talking to network trial artist Erich Newton on his lunch break ... – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Doonesbury. We're outside the courthouse now, talking to network trial artist Erich Newton on his lunch break ..., preserved in this historic drawing. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Doonesbury. We're outside the courthouse now, talking to network trial artist Erich Newton on his lunch break ...
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Garry Trudeau's *Doonesbury* strip, published March 9, 1976, finds its characters outside a courthouse, where a network trial artist named Erich Newton is taking a lunch break. The setting points to the Patty Hearst case, which was then being tried in San Francisco and drew heavy national attention. Because cameras were barred from federal courtrooms, sketch artists were the main visual record of such proceedings for television audiences, and Trudeau uses that detail for satire. The strip also takes up racism and the role of television in shaping how the public saw the trial.
| Created / published | c1976. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing. |
| Genre | Editorial cartoons American.Drawings.Comics American. |
| Notes | (DLC/PP-1982:64.18) Published by: Universal Press Syndicate, Mar. 9, 1976. mm / 860602; ljr / 000421. |
| Subjects | Hearst, Patricia,--1954---Trials, litigation, etc. Judicial proceedings--United States--1970-1980. Racism--United States--1970-1980. Television broadcasting--United States--1970-1980. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 684 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-158466 |
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