2008 Events
Calendar News & Events
March 1, 2008
Stage Reading—Trying
Trying, a play about aging American lawyer and Nuremberg Chief Judge Francis Beverley Biddle, was staged as a reading by Ted Sharon, Associate Chair from the Department of Theatre and Dance at the State University of New York at Fredonia, in the Jackson Center’s Carl Cappa Theater at 7 p.m. on Saturday, March 1, 2008. Dr. James Ivey, actor and associate professor at SUNY Fredonia, and B.F.A. actress Chelsea Claiser read the lead roles. The story was inspired by playwright Joanna Glass’s experiences as Biddle’s personal secretary (1967–68). Glass received the Jefferson Award for New Work in 2004. The reading was free and open to the public.
Francis Biddle and Robert H. Jackson were contemporaries and personal friends. Jackson preceded Biddle as U.S. Solicitor General and U.S. Attorney General, and served as Chief American prosecutor at Nuremberg concurrently with Biddle.
Read Robert Plyler's review.
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February 13, 2008
Observance of Robert H. Jackson's 116th Birthday
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The Honorable Jeffrey S. Sutton, federal judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, was the guest speaker at the February 13, 2008, observance of Robert H. Jackson’s 116th birthday at 7 p.m. in the Warren County Courthouse. This event, which was co-sponsored by the Robert H. Jackson Center, the Robert H. Jackson/Samuel F. Bonavita Lectureship Fund, Warren County Bar Association, Warren County Historical Society, Edinboro University, and Blair Corporation, was free and open to the public. The Warren County Courthouse is located at 204 Fourth Ave., Warren, Pa.
Sutton received his B.A. from Williams College and his law degree from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Following graduation, he clerked (1990–1991) for the Honorable Thomas Meskill, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and next (1991–1992) for United States Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (Retired) and Justice Antonin Scalia.
From 1992 to 1995 Sutton was in private practice in Columbus, Ohio. He served as Ohio solicitor between 1995 and 1998 and has served as adjunct professor of law at the Moritz College of Law since 1993.
Sutton was nominated to a seat on the Sixth Circuit by President George W. Bush and was confirmed on April 29. 2003.
This event was the third annual observance of Jackson’s birthday in Warren. Justice Jackson was born in Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pa.; Judge Sutton has roots in Warren County through his uncle and aunt, Chase and Mary Putnam.
Read Times Observer report of this event.
January 29, 2008
Real Life Events Create Connection Between Jackson Center and Hollywood Movie
Jackson Center Board Chairman Gregory L. Peterson spoke briefly Tuesday, January 29 at 7:30 p.m. at the Reg Lenna Civic Center. His comments preceded the movie “Hunting Party,” which was part of the Movies @ The Center series.
Based on real life events, the movie tells the story of the hunt for Bosnian war criminal known as “The Fox” by a veteran TV news correspondent, his cameraman and the son of a TV network executive.
Real life events relating to international criminal law and war criminals were the topics of discussion at the first International Law Dialogs held this past August at the Chautauqua Institution. Former and current war crimes prosecutors gathered for two days of discussions about the laws of war. Following the end of the public sessions, the participating prosecutors issued a joint declaration, the Chautauqua Declaration, which appeals to the world community to arrest war criminals still at large and bring them to justice. Copies of the Declaration were distributed to all those who attended the movie. CNN.com included footage of the document signing ceremony in an interview with actor Richard Gere that aired as part of the publicity surrounding the release of “Hunting Party.”
Following the end of World War II, Robert H. Jackson became the architect of the international trial process and then the chief prosecutor of the surviving Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, Germany. This historic trial held Nazi leaders accountable for the genocide of the Holocaust.
Today, crimes against humanity, genocide and war crimes are prosecuted by the International Criminal Court (ICC), which was established in 2002 and is based in The Hague, Netherlands. Several ICC prosecutors and two Nuremberg prosecutors participated in the August International Law Dialogs. They were David M. Crane, Special Court Sierra Leone; Sir Desmond DeSilva, Special Court Sierra Leone; Whitney Harris, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg; Hassan Jallow, International Criminal Tribunal Rwanda; Henry King, International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg; Luis Moreno-Ocampo, International Criminal Court; Robert Petit, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia; Stephen Rapp, Special Court Sierra Leone; and David Tolbert, International Criminal Tribunal Yugoslavia.
Read Robert W. Plyler's review of "The Hunting Party"