Texas courtroom scene of historic trial

On Nov. 24, 1923, a Fort Worth jury came back with a verdict in the federal fraud trial of disgraced explorer, Dr. Frederick Albert Cook. A decade and a half earlier, scientists and the public alike were forced to choose between the competing claims of Dr. Cook, who insisted he was the first to reach the North Pole in April 1908, and Robert Edwin Peary, who claimed he pulled off the polar feat a…