A mentally unbalanced man is obsessed with the idea that a black cat is possessed. He tortures and kills it. Later, he comes to believe that the cat has returned from the dead to kill him.

A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.

A trial melodrama about a mother who encourages her 14 year old daughter to have sex with a 16 year old Mexican boy.

The Dallas trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, President John F. Kennedy's alleged assassin, is enacted as it might have occurred. After the defense enters pleas of "not guilty" and "not guilty by reason of insanity," 23 witnesses for the prosecution testify. No verdict is returned.