`LITTLE GIANT' HAD BIG IMPACT ON JUSTICE JUDGE LINDSEY'S JUVENILE COURT WAS WORLD MODEL.(Local)

From: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) | Date: April 20, 1999| Author: Abbott, Karen | Copyright information

Byline: Karen Abbott News Staff Writer Denver Rocky Mountain News, NEWS4, Public Service Co., partners in Colorado Millennium 2000

Denver civic leaders drove Judge Benjamin Barr Lindsey out of town in the 1920s for thinking scandalously far ahead of his time.

But when he died during World War II, they put a bronze bust of him in the courthouse and called him Colorado's greatest citizen for creating a special Denver court for children that became a world model. ...

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