The Press: Big Issue

The Chicago Tribune conducted a referendum among its readers to discover if they wished to have WGN, the Tribune's radio station, broadcast the trial, beginning Aug. 4, of Richard Loeb and Nathan Leopold Jr., alleged murderers of Robert Franks.

Front page headlines and the entire second page of WGN were, on several days, devoted to this issue.

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