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IN COLD BLOOD

IN COLD BLOOD. Truman Capote.

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IN COLD BLOOD

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  1. IN COLD BLOOD Truman Capote

  2. Perry Edward Smith is led by police officers into the courthouse at Garden City. Smith was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of four members of the Herbert Clutter family at their farmhouse in Holcomb. Fifty years ago, the Clutter murders inspired Truman Capote to write "In Cold Blood." WILLIAM STRAETER / Associated

  3. Perry Edward Smith is seen as he was returned to the Finney County Courthouse in Garden City, in this 1960 photo. Smith was arrested in Las Vegas and charged with first-degree murder in the slaying of four members of the Herbert Clutter family at their farmhouse in Holcomb.

  4. This is the farm home of Herb Clutter family near Garden City where the father, mother and two children were gagged, bound and shot to death. Authorities are shown carrying one of the bodies from the home to the ambulance at left. The bodies of Clutter, a 50-year-old well-to-do farmer; his wife, Bonnie, and their two children, Nancy and Kenyon were found in the home early Nov. 15, 1959

  5. Author Truman Capote stands in the living room of the Clutter ranch house where four members of the Kansas family were murdered in 1959. Capote's account of the crime and its solution. "In Cold Blood" was a best-seller and is being filmed in the actual locales. Despite critical comment, Capote declares his "non-fiction novel" was an advance in literature.

  6. Clutter family murder suspect Perry Edward Smith, right, is interviewed by Dr. Mitchell Jones, staff psychiatrist of the Larned, Kansas State Hospital, March 21, 1960

  7. Richard Hickock is seen in 1960. Hickock was hanged with Perry Smith in 1965 after being convicted in the 1959 quadruple murder of the Herbert Clutter family.

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