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- The Massie Trial, for what was known as the Massie Affair, was a 1932 criminal trial that took place in Honolulu, Hawaii Territory. Socialite Grace Fortescue, along with several accomplices, was charged with the murder of the well-known local prizefighter Joseph Kahahawai.
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Feb 21, 2022 · No one knows what exactly happened to Kahahawai's alleged victim Thalia Massie on the night of September 12th, 1932. And recently, scholars have suggested that during the rape trial and the subsequent murder trial, "all six became pawns in a system that ultimately served the white male power structure."
- Marina Manoukian
Jan 5, 2016 · University of Hawaii professor David Stannard’s description focuses on the waves of racist hysteria the case generated all over the country. “The Massie Case was more than a true-crime drama.
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v. t. e. The Massie Trial, for what was known as the Massie Affair, was a 1932 criminal trial that took place in Honolulu, Hawaii Territory. Socialite Grace Fortescue, along with several accomplices, was charged with the murder of the well-known local prizefighter Joseph Kahahawai.
Oct 11, 2023 · Massie’s contention that a group of local men had committed the crime led to the vigilante kidnapping and beating of two of the accused men and the death of one of them, 22-year-old Joseph Kahahawai. The white vigilantes were found and convicted, but their sentences were commuted to one hour served.
The true crime details about the Massie-Kahahawai Case are by now, very well known – especially in the last decade with the appearance of books like Honor Killing (2005) by UH American Studies professor David Stannard, Hawaii Scandal (2002) by veteran newspaper reporter Cobey Black, and Mark Zwonitzer’s PBS documentary The Massie Affair (2005).
criminal. Fukunaga’s crime was unsettling enough, but one way or another it could be put out of sight. This was impossible when, three years later, Thalia Massie, the twenty-year-old-wife of Tommy Hedges Massie, a submarine lieutenant stationed at Pearl Harbor, told a story which—if it was true—meant
The Massie-Kahahawai case of 1931–1932 shook the Territory of Hawai‘i to its very core. Thalia Massie, a young Navy wife, alleged that she had been kidnapped and raped by “some Hawaiian boys” in Waikīkī. A few days later, five young men stood accused of her rape. Mishandling of evidence and contradictory testimony led to a…
