Road by RONALD WATKINS
THE crime of Socrates, that wise philosopher of ancient Greece, was too groat freedom of thought: he died because he would not be false to his beliefs. The story of his end, as Plato tells it, is as moving as anything in all literature. Mr. Watkins' reading tonight begins with the conclusion of Socrates' speech in court after his judges had condemned him to death, and then continues with the story as put into the mouth of an eye-witness of his last moments in prison.