S19 Ep151: True Crime Tuesday presents: Trial By Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth About Barbara Graham w/Marcia Clark

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🗓️ 17 December 2024

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True Crime Tuesday presents: Trial By Ambush: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth About Barbara Graham with Attorney/Prosecutor/Media Personality/Best Selling Author, Marcia Clark!

Marcia Clark may be most famous for her work as a Los Angeles prosecutor handling high-profile murder cases, but she’s also been a defense attorney and an appellate lawyer for many years—and therefore has spent most of her life immersed in true crime. A compelling and talented storyteller who has written about both her own life and fictional lawyers she created, Clark is also the author of a #1 New York Times bestselling memoir and nine legal thrillers.

Now, Clark takes on a historical true crime from 1950s Los Angeles in her nonfiction narrative, TRIAL BY AMBUSH: Murder, Injustice, and the Truth about the Case of Barbara Graham, which is available now from Thomas & Mercer . The case became the 50’s version of “the Trial of the Century” and resulted in Graham’s conviction and execution. And while the story became an Oscar-winning 1958 film, I Want to Live! starring Susan Hayward, the true and complete story about the trial, the prosecution and the cruel spotlight trained on Barbara Graham throughout has never been told. TRIAL BY AMBUSH shines a bright, modern light on the crime, the investigation, the trial, and the judgment. Drawing on her vast expertise and perspective as a criminal lawyer, Clark exposes the fallacies in the demonizing picture they painted, the blatant misogyny both inside the courtroom and out, the critical evidence that was never revealed, and the prosecutorial win-at-all-costs mentality that violated ethical boundaries, exploited sexist biases and subverted justice.

Marcia joins TCT today to discuss the crazy circumstances surrounding Barbara's case, why she chose to write about Barbara's case, and tells us how this case changed the landscape of American law as we know it!

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0:00.0	Welcome into the best and true crime podcasting.
0:25.1	This is True Crime Tuesday.
0:26.1	I'm your host, Tim Dennis.
0:27.5	Got a great show and story today, folks.
0:29.3	Dumb Crime Stupid Criminals coming up in just a bit.
0:31.4	But first, I have an esteemed guest today.
0:34.9	Got a great book, which I read over the weekend.
0:37.0	This is it right here. It is called
0:39.8	trial by ambush, murder injustice, and the truth about the case of Barbara Graham. My guest
0:47.0	today is a great one. Ladies and gentlemen, it is California native Marsha Clark. She's the author of not only Final Judgment, Snap Judgment, Moral Defense, and Blood Defense,
0:59.5	all part of the Samantha Brinkman series.
1:02.7	She's also been a practicing criminal lawyer since 1979.
1:05.7	She was involved in the trials of Robert John Bardo, Rebecca Schaefer, and of course you know her from the O.J. Simpson
1:14.7	trial. But she's also been part of the bestselling without a doubt book and much, much more.
1:22.2	This book by far is an amazing book. It's a book about the case of Barbara Graham, and we want to talk to her
1:29.3	today about this, and we've got limited time to do so. So let's get right to it. Ladies and
1:33.3	gentlemen, for the first time on True Crime Tuesday, Marsha Clark. Marcia, thank you so much for being
1:38.1	on the program today. My pleasure, Tim. Thanks for having me. So let's get right to it. First of all, I want to ask you, why dig into this? This case is quite an old case. Why this case?
1:51.6	This is a very good question. I had decided a few years ago that I would take a chance on nonfiction because the previous nine books had been
2:02.3	all fiction series. As you spoke about, the Samantha Brinkman series was one, there was Rachel
2:08.0	Knight's series and it was a standalone called The Fall Girl. And I was thinking, you know, maybe I should
2:14.0	give it a try, you know, go into nonfiction. So I wanted to look at a true crime story,
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