id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5273 Arthur Miller - Wikipedia .html text/html 10719 1345 78 In the late 1970s, he joined the other celebrities (including William Styron and Mike Nichols) who were brought together by the journalist Joan Barthel whose coverage of the highly publicized Barbara Gibbons murder case helped raise bail for Gibbons' son Peter Reilly who had been convicted of his mother's murder based on what many felt was a coerced confession and little other evidence.[49] Barthel documented the case in her book A Death in Canaan which was made as a television film of the same name and broadcast in 1978.[50] City Confidential, an A&E Network series, produced an episode about the murder, postulating that part of the reason Miller took such an active interest (including supporting Reilly's defense and using his own celebrity to bring attention to Reilly's plight) was because he had felt similarly persecuted in his run-ins with the HUAC. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5273.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5273.txt