Serving a day of jury duty usually pays $40 or $50. Playwright Reginald Rose's 1954 stint in the jury room at New York's Foley Square courthouse brought a much greater reward. It inspired him to write ...

I recently auditioned for a local theater production of Twelve Angry Men. As a jury researcher, how could I resist? Although I did not get a part, I still went to a performance, and I was struck by ...