Jackson List: Messages for Democrats (August 1940)
This post, including a historic postcard image of Celoron’s Pier Ball Room, now is on the Jackson List archive site in “book look” PDF file form. Continue reading.
View ArticleJackson List: A Justice Back, A Justice Welcomed, A Justice Away (September...
This post, including images of Justice Felix Frankfurter’s September 19, 1945, three-page handwritten letter to new Justice Harold H. Burton, now is on the Jackson List archive site in “book look” PDF...
View ArticleNew Bibliography on the Nuremberg Trials
Congratulations and thanks to Professor Kevin Jon Heller and his colleague Catherine E. Gascoigne for producing, just in time for the 70th anniversary of the commencement of the International Military...
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Jackson List: James B. Donovan, Before the “Bridge of Spies”
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View ArticleJackson List: The Nuremberg Trial Begins (1945)
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Jackson List: Holidays & Memories
Thank you all, the past year’s many newcomers and all of the past years’ veterans. I truly appreciate your interest in the Jackson List, your “forwards,” your recruitments of new subscribers, and your...
View ArticleJackson List: Four Freedoms, Newly Alive at Seventy-Five
Today marks the 75th anniversary of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s January 6, 1941, State of the Union address—the “Four Freedoms” speech. In a Jackson List post five years ago (click here), I...
View ArticleJackson List: A Great Jurist Gone, A Great Seat Now Sadly Empty
This post, including photographs of Justice Jackson’s and Justice Scalia’s seats on the Supreme Court bench, shrouded in black following their respective deaths in 1954 and 2016, now is on the Jackson...
View ArticleJackson List: Hugo L. Black, Born February 27, 1886
This post, including a photograph of Robert Jackson and Senator Hugo Black in the 1930s, now is on the Jackson List archive site in “book look” PDF file form. Continue reading.
View ArticleJackson List: President Eisenhower & Justice Jackson’s Funeral (1954)
Following the death last month of United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, President Obama, in California to meet with Asian nation leaders, made a public statement of remembrance and...
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Jackson List: Albany Wedding (1916)
In summer 1911, Robert H. Jackson was a nineteen-year-old high school graduate who was working to become a lawyer. He had spent the past year as an apprentice to two Jamestown, New York, lawyers (one...
View ArticleJackson List: March of the Living’s Nuremberg symposium, and the March
March of the Living, an annual international educational program, will host two notable events in Poland this week. On Wednesday, May 4th, Jagiellonian University in Krakow will be the site of an...
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Jackson List: Ernest W. Michel (1923-2016), Survivor, Reporter, Teacher &...
For the Jackson List: Of the hundreds of press corps reporters who covered the Nuremberg trial of the principal Nazi war criminals seventy years ago, only one, I believe, had been tattooed by the...
View ArticleJackson List: Supreme Court Appointments (1941)
At about this time of day on July 3, 1941, seventy-five years ago, Harlan Fiske Stone became the Chief Justice of the United States. Three weeks earlier, on June 12th, President Franklin D. Roosevelt...
View ArticleJackson List: New Month, Quiet; Full Court, Ready (August 1941)
This post, enhanced with an image of Justice Jackson’s Aug. 1941 letter to Justice Douglas, and with some footnotes, now is on the Jackson List archive site in PDF file form. Continue reading.
View ArticleJackson List: The Justice on Vacation, “Shop Closed” (Summer 1951)
On June 4, 1951, the Supreme Court of the United States announced its final decisions of the term and then began its summer recess. The most notable decision that day was United States v. Dennis, et...
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Jackson List: Wedding in Cold Spring Harbor (1944)
On this date in 1944, Ensign William Eldred Jackson (United States Navy Reserve), age 25, and Nancy-Dabney Roosevelt, age 21, married in Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, New York. The wedding,...
View ArticleJackson List: Judgments Days in Nuremberg (1946)
Greetings from Nuremberg, Germany, where I am honored to be participating in conference events and ceremonies commemorating the anniversary of the conclusion of the international Nuremberg trial....
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Jackson List: Phil C. Neal (1919-2016), Jackson Law Clerk
For the Jackson List: In August 1940, United States Attorney General Robert H. Jackson appointed a new graduate of Harvard Law School, John F. Costelloe, to serve as a junior attorney in the U.S....
View ArticleJackson List: Justices & the World Series
For the Jackson List: United States Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, a Chicago native, has been rooting for the Chicago Cubs almost since they last won a World Series—that was in 1908, just...
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