The Woman Under Oath(1919)

movie - first aired/released 1919-06-29 - audience 6.5

Directed by John M. Stahl

After a forward introduces the question of whether women are temperamentally suited for jury duty, Jim O'Neil, a young shipping clerk, is found holding a revolver over his dead employer, Edward Knox. The celebrated novelist Grace Norton, selected to be on the jury at Jim's trial, becomes the first woman juror in New York.