“That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power has ever paid to Reason.” — from Jackson's Opening Statement before the International Military Tribunal

Jackson Center Video and Audio Archive



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Robert H. Jackson Authorities

John Q. Barrett, Robert H. Jackson biographer, That Man: An Insider's Portrait Of Franklin D. Roosevelt (10-22-01)
Professor John Q. Barrett, St. John's University School of Law on Jackson and Nuremberg legacy (9-28-05)
Eugene Gerhart, Robert H. Jackson biographer, America's Advocate (11-30-99)
Nancy Roosevelt Jackson, Daughter-in-law of Robert H. Jackson (5-17-03)
Professor Christoph Safferling, Marburg University, on German Perspective of Nuremberg (10-27-05)
Lorraine Wagner, Secretary to Eugene Gerhart (5-26-01)
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Robert H. Jackson Law Clerks

Howard C. Buschman, Jr. (1949-1951) (9-21-03)
Donald Cronson (1952-1953) (10-6-03)
Murray Gartner (1945-1947) (10-21-02)
James Marsh (1947-1949) (10-24-02)
Phil C. Neal (1944-1945) (10-22-02)
C. George Neibank, Jr. (1951-1952) (6-5-00)
E. Barrett Prettyman Jr. (1953-1954) (10-8-03)
E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. (1953-1954) on Jackson's unpublished memo on Brown (10-8-03)
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Supreme Court Notables

Henry Abraham, Supreme Court Historian (3-19-03)
Bennett Boskey, law clerk for Chief Justice Harlan Stone during West Virginia vs. Barnette) (4-27-06)
William T. Coleman, law clerk for Felix Frankfurter (1948), assistant to Thurgood Marshall (5-18-05)
Gordon Davidson, law clerk for Justice Stanley Reed on the legacy of Brown vs. Board of Ed. (5-17-05)
*Gathie Barnett Edmonds, one of the parties of West Virginia v. Barnette (4-28-06)
Jack Fassett, law clerk for Justice Stanley Reed (4-28-04)
Eric Fournier, Emmy Award winning producer, on Fred Korematsu (9-26-02)
David Ginsburg, Justice William O. Douglas' first law clerk on working with Jackson as Solicitor General (2-15-05)
Ophelia Delaine Gona, daughter of Rev. Josephe Delaine on her father and the South Carolina case in Brown vs. Board of Ed.) (5-16-05)
Linda Greenhouse, New York Times Supreme Court reporter on Jackson jurisprudence (7-25-06)
*Charles C. Hileman, law clerk for Justice Harold Burton on relationship to Justice Burton (5-07)
Fred Korematsu, named plaintiff in Korematsu v. United States (9-26-02)
Prof. Daniel Meador, law clerk for Justice Hugo Black on Justice Black's concerns with Brown vs. Board of Ed. (5-17-05)
*Abner J. Mikva, law clerk for Justice Sherman Minton on Steel Seizure Case (5-07)
*James C.N. Paul, law clerk for Chief Justice Fred Vinson (’51, ’52 Terms) on Robert H. Jackson (5-07)
Earl Pollock, law clerk for Chief Justice Earl Warren (4-28-04)
*Neal P. Rutledge, law clerk for Justice Hugo Black on Justice Jackson’s reputation (5-07)
Frank Sander, law clerk for Justice Felix Frankfurter (4-28-04)
*Marshall L. Small, law clerk for Justice William Douglas on Steel Seizure Case (5-07)
*Marie Barnett Snodgrass, one of the parties of West Virginia v. Barnette (4-28-06)
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Scholars

Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University School of Law on Robert H. Jackson and legacy (9-30-06)
Dr. Michael Berenbaum, former Project Director of U.S. Holocaust Museum (7-6-01)
Dr. James M. Dunn, Wake Forest University Divinity School (9-01)
Helen Fagin, Holocaust Survivor and Educator on "The Final Solution" (4-5-05)
Prof. Kenneth Gormley, Duquesne School of Law (6-26-03)
Prof. Erica Harth, Last Witnesses (7-11-02)
Professor Jeffrey Hockett, on Jackson as last great Common Law Judge (11-1-04)
Professor Jeffrey Hockett, author of New Deal Justice. Jackson on executive powers (11-1-04)
*Linda Holmes, author of 4000 Bowls of Rice: A Prisoner of War Comes Home, on Tokyo Trials (11-2-06)
Kenneth Joyce, Distinguished Professor at Buffalo Law School on Jackson's "Infallible" quote (11-4-05)
Dr. Klaus Kastner, German Historian of Nuremberg Trials, author of Der Nurnberger Prozess (1-16-04)
David Luban, Georgetown University, Law and Philosophy on Nuremberg—London Charter (9-26-06)
Michael Marrus, Historian, University of Toronto School of Law on legacy of Robert H. Jackson (10-6-06)
Prof. Kevin McMahon, Reconsidering Roosevelt on Race (7-10-04)
Prof. Michael Newton, Vanderbilt Law, Iraqi trial advisor on Nuremberg legacy (9-28-05)
Prof. James Patterson, Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and its Troubled Legacy (3-8-04)
Joseph Persico, author of Infamy on Trial on Justice Jackson (6-11-06)
Prof. Eric Posner, University of Chicago on I.C.C. (9-29-05)
Geoffrey Robertson, Q.C. London on Jackson legacy (9-28-05)
Prof. Michael Scharf, Case Western Law, Knox Law Center on Jackson and international law (8-5-06)
David Siegel, Distinguished Professor at Albany Law School (6-8-05)
Hon. Kenneth Starr, Whitewater Prosecutor (6-27-03)
Prof. Geoffrey Stone, author of "Perilous Times" on his judicial heroes (7-12-05)
Prof. Geoffrey Stone, University of Chicago Law School on Justice Jackson (7-11-05)
Prof. Kathleen Sullivan, Dean of Stanford Law School (7-25-03)
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Judges and Officials

Hon. Thomas Buergenthal, American judge on the International Court of Justice, Hague on Nuremberg and legacy (10-17-06)
David Crane, Chief American Prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal for Sierra Leone, on the legacy of Nuremberg (9-28-05)
*Sir Desmond DeSilva, former Chief Prosecutor of Special Court for Sierra Leone (8-28-07)
Hon. Richard Goldstone, Constitutional Court of South Africa on Jackson serving at Nuremberg as a precedent (9-30-06)
*Hon. Hasson Jallow, Chief Prosecutor for International Tribunal for Rwanda (8-28-07)
Hon. Matthew Jasen, Denazification Judge
Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, former Attorney General under President Johnson (4-29-04)
Hon. Hans-Peter Kaul, International Criminal Court on Nuremberg legacy and ICC (9-30-06)
Hon. Michael Keasler, on humor and Jackson (10-26-02)
Hon. Phillipe Kirsch, President, International Criminal Court on ICC as natural continuation of Nuremberg
*Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (8-29-07)
*George Mugwanya, Appeals Counsel for Special Court for Rwanda (8-29-07)
Hon. Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice, United States Supreme Court on Justice Jackson/Barnette case. (8-04)
*Robert Petit, Co-prosecutor Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (8-28-07)
*Stephen Rapp, Chief Prosecutor for Special Court for Sierra Leone (8-30-07)
Senator Charles Schumer (7-1-03)
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa), on Jackson and Steel Seizure case (7-14-06)
*David Tolbert, Prosecutor of International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (8-29-07)
**Seth Waxman, Solicitor General of the United States from 1997 through January 2001, on Jackson (7-8-07)
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Nuremberg Trial Prosecutors

William Baldwin (8-25-02)
Brady Bryson, on the legacy of Nuremberg (12-6-01)
William Caming (9-16-02)
James Conway (10-23-01)
Robert Donihi, Prosecutor at Tokyo trials on reaction to verdict and Hirohito (8-24-05)
Benjamin Ferencz, Nuremberg Prosecutor in Einsatzgruppen case on the shadow of IMT on his trial (11-11-)5)
Whitney Harris (10-22-01)
Whitney Harris, Nuremberg Prosecutor on quest for respect for rule of law (9-29-05)
*Whitney Harris on Rome Statute and Rule of Law (8-30-07)
Whitney Harris and Henry King (10-23-01)
Henry King (5-1-02)
Bernard Meltzer, on Robert H. Jackson's opening statement at Nuremberg (10-24-01)
Jack Robbins (6-17-04)
Drexel Sprecher, on Robert H. Jackson's role (12-6-01)
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Other Nuremberg Trial Participants

Ruth Bateman, Nuremberg Research Assistant, on the Grand Hotel (5-24-06)
** Yves Beigbeder, law clerk to Nuremberg French Judge Donnedieu de Vabres, on legacy of Nuremberg Trial (6-9-07)
Simon Bourgin, Washington press reporter on FDR press conferences (3-12-06)
Ray D'Addario, Nuremberg Photographer (4-30-02)
Ambassador John Dolibois, Nuremberg Interrogator (9-26-01)
Allan Dreyfuss, Nuremberg Trial reporter on Hermann Goering (2-18-06)
Hon. Norbert Ehrenfreund, Nuremberg Trial reporter for "Stars and Stripes" (6-13-05)
** Hedy Epstein, research analyst at trial, on anecdotes
Bennett Friedman, American Interpreter at capture of Goering (9-4-04)
Father Moritz Fuchs, Jackson's bodyguard at Nuremberg, on his very privileged position where he saw Robert H. Jackson rise to the occasion (3-21-02)
Dr. Arnold Joseph, Nuremberg Prison mail censor (4-27-03)
Ruth Lansing, Research Assistant on Krupp Case on Otto Ohlendorf (1-26-02)
Dr. John K. Lattimer, Nuremberg physician (9-17-02)
Alma McLay, Nuremberg Secretary, "on caroling at Nuremberg" (11-15-04)
Ernest Michel, Holocaust survivor and Nuremberg Trial reporter (4-8-02)
Gertrude Moretti, Researcher (7-02)
Lars Ottoson, BBC Reporter (2-12-02)
** John Powers, Nuremberg Documentation Center (through 1946), on Russians (4-15-06)
Johann Gunther Schaetzler, Defense Counsel for Rudolf Hess and German high command (11-20-05)
Budd Schulberg, academy award winner and producer of Nazi Plan shown at Nuremberg Trial (1-26-04)
** Rev. William Shoop, teletype operator at Nuremberg Courthouse (7-16-03)
** Bill Sluga, chauffeur for Hon. Mallory Blair, subsequent Nuremberg Trials
Richard Sonnenfeldt, Chief American Interpreter at Nuremberg Trial (12-8-03)
Richard Sonnenfeldt, Chief American Interpreter at Nuremberg Trial (7-25-04)
** Werner Von Rosenstiel, interpreter at Nuremberg Trial, on opening statement
Dr. Herman S. Wigodsky, aide to Dr. Ivey in identifying Nazi doctors for trial
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Audio

Robert H. Jackson's Address at Jamestown High School
Robert H. Jackson's Commencement Address at St. Lawrence University
Justice Robert H. Jackson Opens Trial for U.S.
Defendants Plead Not Guilty
Hess Confesses Faking Amnesia
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