“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

Eugene C. Gerhart Scholar



Eric Larson

Jamestown native Eric A. Larson has been named the Jackson Center’s Eugene C. Gerhart Scholar from June 2005 to June 2006. Mr. Larson, a 2001 alumnus of Jamestown High School, graduated from Princeton University cum laude in May 2005, where he majored in history. He worked as a Jackson Center research intern during the summer of 2004. The title of his Princeton senior thesis was “Judge at War: World War II, Nuremberg and the Supreme Court in the Thought of Justice Robert H. Jackson.”

At the Jackson Center, Mr. Larson is working on historical research projects, including gathering and posting Justice Jackson’s public writings and speeches, and articles about Jackson on the Jackson Center's website. He has worked at the National Archive and Library of Congress to obtain film and radio recordings of Jackson, which will be incorporated into the collections and website of the Jackson Center. He has also edited several Jackson Center publications, including Nuremberg prosecutor Whitney R. Harris' book Murder by the Millions: Rudolf Hoess at Auschwitz and a compilation of Jackson's speeches before Swedish-American organizations.

Mr. Larson’s position has been made possible through a gift by Jackson biographer Eugene C. Gerhart. Mr. Gerhart, an attorney in Binghamton, New York, and an active Princeton alumnus, is author of America’s Advocate: Robert H. Jackson, which is available through the Jackson Center. Mr. Gerhart, who knew Justice Jackson from October 1946 until his death in 1954, generously endowed the Jackson Center’s Eugene C. Gerhart Intern Program Fund.

Remarks by Eric Larson on the 60th anniversary of the prosecution's closing statements at the trial of the principal surviving Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg, Germany.