Defending the Damned

Defending the Damned
CPL/file
Defending the Damned
CPL/file

Defending the Damned

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Veteran journalist Kevin Davis is joined by famed author and lawyer Scott Turow in a discussion moderated by former assistant U.S. attorney Lori Lightfoot about the criminal justice system in Chicago. This program is presented as part of City of Big Readers: Summer Reads for Adults, Chicago Public Library’s first summer reading program designed especially for adult readers.  The program celebrates Chicago from every literary angle - offering a wide variety of books for a wide variety of tastes. Programs, presented through Chicago Public Library, the Chicago History Museum and other Chicago cultural institutions, offer a fun and interesting way to enhance one’s reading experience and expand knowledge of our city and the people who work, live and write here.

Recorded Wednesday, July 18, 2007 at Chicago Public Library.