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STREET v. NATIONAL BROADCASTING CO.

No. 77-1682.

645 F.2d 1227 (1981)

Victoria Price STREET, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. NATIONAL BROADCASTING CO., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Sixth Circuit.

Decided March 13, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Don Wyatt and Raymond W. Fraley, Jr., Fayetteville, Tenn., for plaintiff-appellant.

Robert R. Campbell, John W. Wheeler, Hodges, Daughty & Carson, Knoxville, Tenn., Arthur E. Simms, Jr., Fayetteville, Tenn., for defendant-appellee.

Before MERRITT and BOYCE F. MARTIN, Jr., Circuit Judges, and PECK, Senior Circuit Judge.

MERRITT, Circuit Judge.

This is a Tennessee diversity case against the National Broadcasting Company for libel and invasion of privacy. The plaintiff-appellant, Victoria Price Street, was the prosecutrix and main witness in the famous rape trials of the Scottsboro boys, which occurred in Alabama more than forty years ago. NBC televised a play or historical drama entitled "Judge Horton and the Scottsboro Boys," dramatizing the role of the local presiding judge in one...

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