ROBERT H. JACKSON

ROBERT H. JACKSON:
New Deal Lawyer,
Supreme Court Justice,
Nuremberg Prosecutor

Only one man in history served as United States Solicitor General, Attorney General, and Supreme Court Justice. Yet he never attended college or earned a law degree. In the first biography about Jackson published in fifty years, Jarrow details his journey from rural New York to President Franklin D. Roosevelt's inner circle, the Supreme Court Bench, and the Nuremberg Trial.

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President Roosevelt congratulates Robert Jackson after he took the oath as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, July 11, 1941. (Library of Congress)

Robert Houghwout Jackson

• Robert H. Jackson Center, Jamestown, New York www.roberthjackson.org
  Read Jackson’s judicial opinions and articles. Listen to his recorded speeches. Watch interviews with his family, friends, and colleagues.

Roosevelt/Truman/Eisenhower Administrations

• Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu

• Truman Presidential Museum and Library, Independence, Missouri www.trumanlibrary.org

• Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum, Abilene, Kansas www.eisenhower.utexas.edu
  Library Web sites contain information about each president’s life and administration, including documents, speeches, and photographs. Sites have student sections with additional research sources.

Supreme Court

• Supreme Court of the United States, Washington, D.C. www.supremecourtus.gov
  Includes history of the Supreme Court, biographies of the justices, information about recent cases and Court procedures. The Court building is open to the public. Take a tour, listen to oral arguments, and watch the justices in action.

• “The Supreme Court,” PBS series www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt
  Features history of the Court and its notable decisions, interviews with justices, and lists of print and online resources.

• Supreme Court Historical Society www.supremecourthistory.org
  Gives overview of the Court’s history and traditions with special sections on landmark cases.

• U.S. Supreme Court Center www.supreme.justia.com
  Contains the complete text of Supreme Court rulings. Includes links to commentary and blogs about the Court.

• Oyez Project www.oyez.org
  A multimedia archive of the U.S. Supreme Court. Take a virtual tour of the Supreme Court building. Listen to selected oral arguments.

• Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School www.law.cornell.edu/supct/index.html
  Provides text of Supreme Court decisions, both historic and current.

• The Brown Foundation www.brownvboard.org
  Features information about the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.
  

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trial

• Avalon Project at Yale Law School www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm
  Contains complete transcript of the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

• “The Nuremberg Trials,” American Experience www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/nuremberg
  Web site for the PBS program provides timeline, photographs, and lists of World War II books and Web sites.

• Famous Trials www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
  Includes an account of all Nuremberg Trials, 1945-49, by Douglas O. Linder, law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. Has links to additional resources.

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. www.ushmm.org
  Features extensive information about the Holocaust, including the doctors’ trial at Nuremberg. Lists research sources.

• International Criminal Court www.icc-cpi.int
  Discusses the ICC’s history, organization, and recent cases.

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