Three actors and two college professors enter the Executive Mansion to urge Gov. Edmund G. Brown to spare the life of condemned criminal and author Caryl Chessman in Sacramento, Calif., on May 1, 1960. Making the 11th hour appeal are, from left, Richard Drinnin, University of Calif., history professor; actors Marlon Brando, Steve Allen and Shirley MacLaine; and Eugene Burdick, author and U.C. profesor. (AP Photo)