Jean Harris breaks down on stand Papin

Drawing shows jjilted mistress Jean Harris sobbing on the witness stand under cross examination by the prosecutor George Bolen on February 6, 1981; includes Harris standing on the right, full-length, seen from behind, facing left (set off from the main drawing by a strip of tape).
Caption from Drawing Justice exhibit: Jilted Lover Jean Harris. On March 10, 1980, in Purchase, New York, police received a call that Dr. Herman Tarnhower, a renowned cardiologist and author of the celebrated The Complete Scarsdale Medical Diet, had been shot. They arrived just as Jean Harris, headmistress of the exclusive Madeira School in Virginia, tried to drive away. On February 6, 1981, several days after her defense attorney, Joel Aurnou, had called her to the stand, she broke down under the cross-examination of prosecutor George Bolen. Rejecting her story that she had intended to commit suicide when she accidently shot her lover, the jury found her guilty of murder on February 24, 1981. She served twelve years at the Bedford Hills Correctional Facility in Westchester County, N.Y.

Signed on lower right: Papin.
Gift; Jane Papin; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:128.114)
Exhibited: "Drawing Justice" at the Library of Congress Thomas Jefferson Building, Washington, D.C., April - October 2017.
C12, F3