Philadelphia: David Marshall hires chauffeur E.J. Barry to take away parcels from his office. But as Barry picks up one of the packages, a human leg falls out. Marshall unsuccessfully attempts to pay off Barry but even so he only goes to the authorities when the story appears in the newspapers the next day.

Under police interrogation, Marshall changed his story and said that Dietrich had killed herself and that he cut up her body to hide the affair they were having. At trial the jury took into account the 'morals' of the victim and Marshall (a chiropractor) was paroled in 10 years.

43 year old John F Kennedy becomes 35th president of the United States in a snow covered inauguration. In his inauguration speech, Kennedy told his country: "ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."