2006 Events
2006 Events
Calendar News & Events
March 24, 2006
Ernest Michel
A Holocaust commemorative event took place on March 24, at Bowling Green State University, co-sponsored by the Robert H. Jackson Center. Holocaust survivor Ernest Michael, who was a news reporter at the Nuremberg Trial following World War II, was the featured speaker at a luncheon presentation at 12:15 p.m. in 207 Bowen-Thompson Student Union at BGSU. His presentation was part of “Trajectories of Memory: Intergenerational Representations of the Holocaust in History and the Arts.”Ernest Michel survived Auschwitz, Birkenau, Buna-Monowoitz and Buchenwald concentration camps. Born in Germany, Mr. Michel was imprisoned in concentration camps beginning in 1939 at age 16, until his escape from an Auschwitz death march near the end of World War II.
During his time at Nuremberg after the war, Mr. Michel worked as a special correspondent for the German News Agency DANA. His byline included the words "Auschwitz Survivor #104995" and his articles were circulated in all German newspapers. With the aid of the United Jewish Appeal, he arrived in the United States in 1946 as a displaced person, eventually becoming the Executive Vice President of the United Jewish Appeal Federation of New York, serving for 19 years.
Read more about Ernest Michel
March 25, 2006, newspaper article, The Blade, Toledo, Ohio
April 5-6, 2006
Lois Lowry
The Robert H. Jackson Center and the Law, Youth and Citizenship Program of the New York State Bar Association are jointly sponsoring a state-wide book review contest on Newbery Award winning book, Number the Stars. Author Lois Lowry to speak to sixth graders.
6 PM Wednesday, April 5, Robert H. Jackson Center Banquet Room: Spaghetti Dinner; open to the public. Cost is $7/person and reservations are required. Reservations must be made for the dinner by calling the Center in advance at 483-6646. Author Lois Lowry and statewide book review winners will attend this dinner.
7 PM Wednesday, April 5, Robert H. Jackson Center Carl Cappa Auditorium; Jim Sorg’s unique story during Nazi occupancy in Norway; book review contest winners will be honored; the public is invited at no charge.
10 AM Thursday, April 6, Reg Lenna Civic Center, 116 East Third Street, Jamestown; Lois Lowry speaks to 700 county sixth graders about her book, Number the Stars, and the Danish resistance to the Holocaust.
1 PM at the Robert H. Jackson Center (click here
for BOCES distance learning broadcast) This presentation is not open to
the public as all seats are reserved for area school children.
Lowry brochure | Read winning entries | Press Release | Post-Journal article
Post-Journal article, April 6, 2006
Post-Journal article, April 7, 2006
April 8, 2006
"Strom in Limbo"
SUNY Fredonia theatre students will present a reading of the play written by Chautauquan David Zinman. As described in the Clemson News, where the play has been performed, “The play offers a fantastical court case pitting South Carolina’s notorious Senator Strom Thurmond against a celestial prosecutor, as a trial is held to determine whether the Senator should be sent to Heaven or Hell. The play gives us a glimpse into the life of a man who was much more complex than meets the eye.”
2 PM and 7 PM performances in the Jackson Center’s Carl Cappa Auditorium. Admission is $5 per person.
Click here for a review of the play's debut.
Click here for the poster of the event.
Post-Journal article, April 9, 2006April 25, 2006
Reflections on the Legacy of the Nuremberg Trial
The Santa Monica Bar Association and The Robert H. Jackson Center are co-sponsors of this special event to be held Tuesday, April 25, 2006 from 5-8 p.m. at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Calif. Whitney R. Harris, Esq., former Nuremberg prosecutor and author of the book Tyranny on Trial will be the featured speaker.
Press Release, April 13, 2006
Comments by Rolland Kidder, Executive Director of the Robert H. Jackson Center.
April 27-28, 2006
West Virginia v. Barnette Conference
Panel discussion of West Virginia State Board of Ed. v. Barnette, 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
10:30 AM Friday, April 28, Robert H. Jackson Center Carl Cappa Auditorium. The public is invited at no charge, but is asked to arrive in their seats in the Carl Cappa Auditorium by 10 a.m. as the program will be recorded on video for possible rebroadcast on C-SPAN.
Professor John Q. Barrett, Elizabeth S. Lenna Scholar, will lead “living room discussion” with Gathie Edmonds and Marie Snodgrass, the two “Barnette Sisters,” and Bennett Boskey, Supreme Court Law Clerk to Justice Harlan Stone at the time of the case. Professor Shawn Francis Peters, University of Wisconsin Professor and author of the book Judging Jehovah’s Witnesses, will appear prior to the discussion.
The Barnette decision invalidated a West Virginia State Board of Education resolution that required all school teachers and students to participate in the flag salute and Pledge of Allegiance. The Supreme Court held that the State’s flag salute requirement violated the children’s First Amendment rights. The case was argued March 11, 1943, and decided June 14, 1943. Justice Jackson wrote the Court’s opinion and his writing on the decision is considered among his finest work.
Noon Luncheon following the program is open to the public in the Robert H. Jackson Center Banquet Room. Reservations appreciated.
The event is co-sponsored by the Supreme Court Historical Society of Washington, DC.
Other
sponsors of the program to date include: Lloyd & Company,
Serta Mattress of Jamestown, Young Title Company, Allegheny Financial
Assets, The Jamestown Bar Association, the Jamestown Chamber of
Commerce, Jamestown Community College and the Post-Journal.
Press Release, April 11, 2006 | Press Release, April 14, 2006
Post-Journal article, staff | Post-Journal article, Robert W. Plyler
Post-Journal article, April 27, 2006 | Post-Journal report, April 29, 2006
May 3, 2006
CLE
There will be a Continuing Legal Education Seminar at the Jackson Center on the morning of May 3rd. The main speaker will be Judge Carl Bucki.
May 4, 2006
Law Day
Law Day at the Robert H. Jackson Center will be on May 4 starting at 10am.
Related Post-Journal articles
Law Day 2006
May 24, 2006
Vivien Spitz Appearance Canceled
Vivien Spitz is the author of Doctors from Hell, a book about the Nazi doctors and their treatment of Concentration Camp prisoners during World War II. The youngest court reporter at the Nuremberg war crimes Trial of Nazi doctors, Ms. Spitz has written a book, which includes transcripts that have not been easily available to the general public.
Ms. Spitz had been scheduled to speak at noon on Wednesday, May 24, as part of a Robert H. Jackson Center presentation for an Elderhostel program at Chautauqua Institution. She will be unable to appear due to health considerations.
Robert W. Plyler’s review of Doctors from Hell
June 12, 2006
Joseph E. Persico
Author of Nuremberg: Infamy on Trial, the book on which the movie Nuremberg was based, will speak at the RHJ Center at 12:30 pm. Open to the public at no charge.
Mr. Persico, a biographer and historian, wrote the book Nuremberg, which became the basis for the movie by the same name starring Alec Baldwin as Justice Jackson. Persico has written other books including The Imperial Rockefeller; Edward R. Murrow: An American Original; Casey: From the OSS to the CIA; and other works of nonfiction. He collaborated with General Colin L. Powell on the general’s autobiography, My American Journey.
The Jackson Center is encouraging a “community read” of the Nuremberg book prior to Mr. Persico’s arrival. Copies are available at the Jackson Center for a discounted price of $5.42 (includes sales tax). Shipping, if required, is additional.
Post-Journal coverage Robert Plyler review
Post-Journal report
Post-Journal photos
Jackson Center press release
June 20-22, 2006
Aaron Beckwith
10 AM Tuesday-Thursday, June 20-22 Chautauquan Aaron Beckwith shows his Emmy Award-winning film Follow the North Star to local student audiences on the fourth grade level; there should be room for the public at no charge.
Post-Journal coverage
July 25, 2006
Linda Greenhouse
New York Times
Supreme Court correspondent Linda Greenhouse will deliver Chautauqua
Institution’s second annual Robert H. Jackson Lecture on the Supreme
Court of the United States at 3:30 PM Tuesday, July 25, at the Hall of
Philosophy, Chautauqua Institution. Her lecture, “The New Supreme
Court: Continuity and Change” is open to Chautauqua Gate Ticket Holders.
Since
1978, with the exception of two years during the mid-1980s, during
which she covered Congress, Linda Greenhouse has been the New York Times
correspondent for the United States Supreme Court, for which she
received the Pulitzer Prize in 1998. She has been a regular guest on
the PBS program Washington Week since 1980. In 2005, she published her first book, Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun’s Supreme Court Journey. More >>
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The Supreme Court and Change, Linda Greenhouse
Jackson Society Meeting
Following Ms. Greenhouse’s lecture at Chautauqua, she will be the honored guest at a 6 p.m. Robert H. Jackson Society reception and dinner at the Jackson Center. Professor John Q. Barrett will speak to members about “Jackson and Germany, 1946 and 2006.”
August 5, 2006
Michael Scharf
Case Western Reserve Law School Professor and Director of the Frederick K. Cox Center on International Law Michael Scharf will make two appearances on Saturday, August 5th. A one-hour interview is scheduled for 11 a.m. at the Robert H. Jackson Center. This is open to the public at no charge.
Mr. Scharf will speak at 3 p.m. at Chautauqua Institution's Hall of Philosophy as a guest of the Jackson Center and the Chautauqua Women's Club. A gate ticket is required.
He replaces Academy Award-winning screenwriter and author Abby Mann, who canceled for health reasons. Mr. Mann had planned to deliver this speech.
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August 23, 2006
Phil Donahue
Phil Donahue Program Sold OutPhil Donahue's August 23 program at the Jackson Center has completely sold out and no tickets will be sold at the door.
Donahue will be interviewed by Jackson Center Chairman Gregory L. Peterson, specifically about Donahue’s 1977-taped interview of Albert Speer, the last surviving Nazi official tried at the Nuremberg Trials by Chief American Prosecutor and Chautauqua County resident Robert H. Jackson. Mr. Donahue also will speak with the audience.
His appearance is made possible by Windstream; Axiom Office Imaging; Eileen S. Star, Elegant Edibles Catering; Falconer Electronics, Inc.; Lakewood Apothecary; Lakewood Furniture Galleries and The Village Casino.
Doors to the Carl Cappa Auditorium will open at 3:l5 p.m. for the 4 p.m. program.
For more information, call the Jackson Center at (716)483-6646.
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Post-Journal PDF
September 11, 2006
Ernest Michel
Holocaust survivor Ernest Michel, who was a news reporter at the Nuremberg Trial following World War II, will speak at the Jackson Center on September 11, 2006 at 12:30 p.m. He will reflect on his experience at the concentration camps and the Nuremberg Trial. This program is free and open to the public. >> More
Read more about Ernest Michel
September 29-30, 2006
THE JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG: A Symposium and Commemoration
A symposium on international criminal law; commemoration of the trial of the major German war criminals at the end of the second world war and its impact on international law, the judicial system, world peace, and order; and a special commentary and documentary presentation. Presented by the Whitney R. Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, Department of Philosophy, School of Law at Washington University in St. Louis in collaboration with the Robert H. Jackson Center and the American Society of International Law. Click here for an overview of the event.
From the News Office of Washington University in St. Louis
Judgment at Nuremberg 60 Years Later by Cynthia Georges
Washington University Record
'Judgment at Nuremberg' forum examines legacy of Nazi war trials
From Washington University
Bassiouni Kicks Off Nuremberg Conference
Washington University Law Blog
October 6-7, 2006
Nuremberg Colloquium
The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial and Its Policy Consequences Today
Co-sponsored at Bowling Green State University at Bowling Green, Ohio, by the Graduate Program in Policy History and the Social Philosophy and Policy Center of Bowling Green State University, the University of Toledo College of Law and the Jackson Center. This two-day interdisciplinary conference will focus on the historical, political, legal and military implications of the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial across the past six decades. Visit the BGSU conference website for additional information.
Bowling Green State University, BGSU Monitor
Oct. 6-7 colloquium revisits Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
CLE Seminar & Luncheon
Are You Ready for Shared Services? A Legal Primer
Presentations by keynote speaker Kenneth W. Bond, Thomas P. Benson, Marty Mack and Laura M. Skibinski will be followed by a panel discussion moderated by Mark Thomas. Seating is limited and registration is required. Registration deadline is October 13, 2006. This course fulfills the following NYS CLE requirements for all attorneys: Professional Practice/Practice Management: 4 credits.
Thursday, November 2, 2006
Linda Holmes
Linda Holmes, author of 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home, will be the featured speaker at an 11:45 a.m. luncheon November 2 at the Williams Center, SUNY Fredonia. Ms. Holmes will speak about war crimes trials in the Pacific at the end of World War II. Event sponsors are SUNY Fredonia, Rotary Clubs of Dunkirk & Fredonia, and the Robert H. Jackson Center.
At 3 p.m. Ms. Holmes will be interviewed by Gregory Peterson in the Carl Cappa Auditorium at the Jackson Center, Jamestown, New York. This event is open to the public, free of charge. More >>
November 17, 2006
Exhibit Opening
The Robert H. Jackson Center opened its new exhibit and archive rooms on November 17th. The first public exhibit in the new facility is dedicated in the honor of Harold Jackson Adams, nephew of Justice Jackson.
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November 20–21, 2006
International Scientific Conference—Nuremberg Process: The Lessons of History
This two-day conference at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia, examined the Nuremberg Trial, Robert H. Jackson and their impact on current international law issues. Attending from the United States were Gregory L. Peterson, Board Chairman, Robert H. Jackson Center; John Q. Barrett, Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow, Robert H. Jackson Center; and Christi Bartman, Ph.D. student, Department of History, Bowling Green State University. Peterson and Barrett elaborated on Jackson’s role at Nuremberg, while other panelists concentrated on the role of Soviet prosecutor Rudenko.
Read Christi Bartman's account