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Show VY? ,' Sv. " 1 1 'fl"' 'mmm"me cQMpyioQ SERVICES. INC. GIDEON'S TRUMPET Henry Fonda (pictured), Jose Ferrer and John Houseman star in 'Gideon's Trumpet,' a 'Hallmark 'Hall-mark Hall of Fame' presentation, WEDNESDAY, ARPIL 30 on i CBS-TV. Fay Wray, Sam Jaffe and Dean Jagger also star in the drama special based on Anthony Lewis' 1964 non-fiction account of how an obsure Florida convict drastically dras-tically changed the course of American legal history. Henry Fonda portrays Clarence Earl Gideon, a semi-literate and impoverished drifter who, despite de-spite protestations of innocence, is arrested for breaking and entering a poolroom in a small Florida town. Unable to afford a lawyer, he asks the court to appoint him counsel, claiming it is his constitutional right. CHECK LISTINGS FOR EXACT TIME. |