“Security and Justice Week” at Chautauqua Institution begins at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, July 20, with a showing of the film Judgment at Nuremberg as an extra attraction to David Zinman’s Chautauqua Class Film Series in the Cinema Theater on the Grounds. The showing will include comments by Professor John Q. Barrett, the 10:45 a.m. Wednesday, July 23, Amphitheater speaker.
Barrett is the Robert H. Jackson Center’s Elizabeth S. Lenna Fellow,
a professor of law at St. John’s University School of Law and a Jackson
historian. He has edited a previously unpublished book by Justice Jackson
entitled That Man about Jackson’s experiences in
the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration. Barrett also is writing a biography
of Jackson centered on his role as Chief Prosecutor of Nuremberg at the end
of World War II. Barrett will participate in several events at Chautauqua
this week.
Zinman is a former staff writer for Newsday newspaper and the Associated Press.
He was a first-prize winner in the 1998 competition of the National Society
of Newspaper Columnists. Zinman has written two books including 50 Classic
Motion Pictures and recently contributed essays in Chicken Soup for the Parent’s
Soul. He has written a play “Strom in Limbo” about a trial in
the afterlife of Senator Strom Thurmond which will read at Chautauqua this
summer.
Justice Robert H. Jackson was a Jamestown native whose role in history is celebrated by the Robert H. Jackson Center, 305 East Fourth Street, Jamestown. Extensive programming has brought colleagues of Jackson to Jamestown including Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist who was a Jackson clerk. The Center is open for tours from 8:30 a.m. - noon weekdays and by appointment at 483-6646.
Judgment at Nuremberg is a l961 movie about the post-World War II trial of
German judges as war criminals. Spencer Tracy plays the lead role while other
actors include Maximillan Schell, Marlene Dietrich, Judy Garland, Bert Lancaster
and Richard Widmark. Zinman interviewed producer Stanley Kramer about the
film and will provide comments.
Admission to the Grounds is free on Sunday. Admission to the air-conditioned
Cinema, located at Hurst and Wythe Avenues, will be $6.75 for adults and $3
for age 12 and younger, payable at the door.