Sixty-five years ago this week, Justice Robert H. Jackson flew from here to Paris on one of the many diplomatic missions that were parts of his Nuremberg trial year. Justice Jackson traveled to Paris in spring 1946 to accept, finally, invitations that the French government, bar and prosecutors at Nuremberg had been tendering to him for many months.
Saturday Night Advice for U.S. Voters Next Tuesday (1940) BY Prof. John Q. Barrett
The Yonkers Connection On November 2, 1940, the Saturday before Election Day, Robert H. Jackson, the Attorney General of the United States, delivered the principal speech at a political meeting outside of New York City. That year featured a presidential election that Jackson and many believed would be close and, for Democrats, possibly a defeat: President Franklin D. Roosevelt, seeking …