They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became Chicago by Cosgrove, Charles H.
They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became Chicago by Cosgrove, Charles H.

They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became Chicago

Examining the case that inspired a pop culture phenomenon In 1924 Beulah Annan was arrested and incarcerated...
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Author: Charles H. Cosgrove
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They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became Chicago by Cosgrove, Charles H.

They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became Chicago

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They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became Chicago by Cosgrove, Charles H.

They Both Reached for the Gun: Beulah Annan, Maurine Watkins, and the Trial That Became Chicago

$299.75
Author: Charles H. Cosgrove
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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Examining the case that inspired a pop culture phenomenon

In 1924 Beulah Annan was arrested and incarcerated for kill­ing her lover, Harry Kalsted. Six weeks later, a jury acquitted her of murder. Inspired by the sordid event, trial, and acquittal, Maurine Watkins, a reporter at the time, wrote the play Chicago, a Broadway hit that was adapted several times. Through a fresh retelling of the story of Annan and of Watkins's play, Charles H. Cosgrove provides a critical examination of the crim­inal case and an exploration of the era's social assump­tions that made the message of the play so plausible in its own time. His careful historical research challenges the received portrait of Annan as a killer who got away with murder and of Watkins as a savvy cub reporter and precocious playwright.

In They Both Reached for the Gun, Charles H. Cosgrove expertly combines meticulous research into inquest transcripts, police records, and interviews with Annan's relatives with detailed analysis to shed new light on the participants, the trial, and the subsequent play and musical. Although no one will ever know what really happened in the south side apartment one hundred years ago, Cosgrove's interrogation shows how sensationalized Watkins's writing was. Her reporting on the Annan case perpetuated falsehoods about Annan's so-called "confession," and her play gave an inaccurate portrayal of Chicago's criminal justice system. Despite Watkins's insistence that her drama revealed the truth about its subjects without any exaggeration, her play depicted police, prosecutors, and judges as the only "good guys" in the story, ignoring those who lied, misled, and used brutal methods to obtain forced confessions.

Author: Charles H. Cosgrove
Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
Published: 06/07/2024
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780809339389

About the Author
Charles H. Cosgrove is emeritus professor of early Christian literature at Garrett Seminary in Evanston, Illinois. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Fortune and Faith in Old Chicago: A Dual Biography of Mayor Augustus Garrett and Seminary Founder Eliza Clark Garrett, and Music at Social Meals in Greek and Roman Antiquity. A lifelong native of the Chicago area, he is an aficionado of the city's history and makes occasional appearances in the area's music venues as a jazz trombonist.
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