234: You Have The Right to Remain Silent: A History of the Miranda Warning

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History, Education

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🗓️ 17 May 2019

⏱️ 34 minutes

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When a man named Ernesto Miranda confessed to a rape and kidnapping on March 13, 1963, his trial went all the way to the Supreme Court becoming one of the most well-known cases of the 20th century: "Miranda v Arizona." Nathan and Joanne look at the interrogation that led to the Supreme Court decision and ask how the Miranda warning transformed from technical bit of police procedure to pop-culture lexicon.

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Image: Ernesto Miranda, 1963. Source: Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records, History and Archives Division,
Phoenix, #00-0517.

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0:00.0	This episode was originally produced in 2018.
0:04.0	Major funding for Backstories provided by an anonymous donor,
0:07.0	the National Endowment for the Humanities,
0:09.0	and the Robert and Joseph Cornell Memorial Foundation.
0:15.0	From Virginia Humanities, this is Backstory.
0:24.0	Welcome to Backstory.
0:26.0	The show that explains the history behind the headlines.
0:28.0	I'm Nathan Connolly.
0:30.0	I'm Joanne Freeman.
0:31.0	If you're new to the podcast, we're all historians.
0:34.0	Each week we explore the history of a topic that's been in the news
0:38.0	or on our minds.
0:40.0	Today's show starts with a crime.
0:43.0	There had been a kidnapping, armed robbery,
0:48.0	an array of a young lady by the name of Patricia.
0:52.0	This is Carol Cooley.
0:55.0	He's retired now, but he was a police officer in Phoenix
0:58.0	at the time this case crossed his desk in March of 1963.
1:03.0	Patricia had been coming home late from a job,
1:06.0	taking tickets at a local movie theater.
1:09.0	She got off the bus a few blocks from her house.
1:12.0	It was very dark. There was no street lighting.
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