By Stephen W. Houghton II
A panel discussion with four of the men who helped to prosecute
Nazi leaders before the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg will
be hosted by the Robert H. Jackson Center.
The discussion will be held at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the Jackson Center
at 305 East Fourth Street in Jamestown, New York. The public is invited to
attend the event free of charge and will be able to view the discussion via
closed circuit television.
The former prosecutors will discuss their personal memories of Jackson, the
historical significance of the Nuremberg trials, and the principal surviving
Nazis they prosecuted.
“This is an extraordinary opportunity to reflect on the personality
of Robert H. Jackson and the legacy of the Nuremberg trials,” said Greg
Peterson, president of the Jackson Center. “It is a way to reflect on
the upcoming trial of Milosevic and how we would deal with bin Laden if we
caught him. This is more than history revisited – it is relevant today.”
The prosecutors present will be Theodore Fenstermacher of Cortland, N.Y.,
who was also chief prosecutor at a subsequent Nuremberg war crimes trial;
Whitney R. Harris, who became Dean of the Southern Methodist University School
of Law, famous for his book Tyranny on Trial; Henry T. King, now a professor
of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law and author of The
Two Worlds of Albert Speer; and Bernard Meltzer, professor of law emeritus
at the University of Chicago Law School and author of War Crimes: the Nuremberg
Trial and the Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Also present will be James
Conway, a prosecutor at one of the subsequent trials.
The moderator for the discussion will be John Q. Barrett, professor of law
at St. John’s University School of Law.