Fumbled Call: The Bear Bryant-Wally Butts Football Scandal That Split the Supreme Court and Changed American Libel Law - Softcover

Sumner, David E.

 
9781476671413: Fumbled Call: The Bear Bryant-Wally Butts Football Scandal That Split the Supreme Court and Changed American Libel Law
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1476671419 ISBN 13: 9781476671413
Verlag: McFarland, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

Atlanta insurance salesman George Burnett found himself at the center of a football scandal when he overheard a phone conversation between University of Georgia athletic director Wally Butts and University of Alabama football coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. Butts seemed to be giving Bryant play formations that would help Alabama defeat Georgia 35-0 in the 1962 season opener.

When the Saturday Evening Post published Burnett’s story months later, Butts and Bryant successfully sued the magazine for libel. The case went to the Supreme Court where it was upheld in a landmark 5-4 decision that expanded the legal definition of "public figures."

Referencing more than 3,000 pages of letters, depositions and trial transcripts, the author reveals new information about this scandal and its resulting trial.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David E. Sumner is a professor emeritus of journalism at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he taught for 25 years. He has written seven books.

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Verlag
McFarland
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1476671419
ISBN 13 
9781476671413
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
234
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