Robert Jackson person
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Claims (32)
Robert Jackson worked_for
Supreme Court of the United States documented
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“The CHAIRMANThat is Senator Mathias previous point that once Attorney General Jackson became Mr Justice Jackson he took a different view…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.106
J. Edgar Hoover met_with
Robert Jackson documented
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“Director Hoover asked Attorney General Jackson in June 1940 for policy guidance…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.423
Robert Jackson appointed
L. M. C. Smith documented
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“To deal with these matters Attorney General Jackson assigned responsibility to the head of a newly created Neutrality Laws Unit in the Justice Department…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.424
Henry L. Stimson met_with
Robert Jackson documented
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“Secretary of War Henry L Stimson advised the Attorney General in August that the War Department had emergency plans providing for the custody of such alien enemies as may be ordered interned and suggested that they be discussed between mili…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.424
Robert Jackson ordered_assassination_of
FBI documented
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“After five months of negotiation the FBI was ordered to transmit its dossiers to the Justice Department Unit.…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.424
American Legion met_with
Robert Jackson documented
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“When the Legionnaires laid their plan before Attorney General Robert Jackson and were dismayed at this response that such investigative activities should be left to professional law enforcement agencies…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book VI: Supplementary Reports on Intelligence Activities · p.231
Robert Jackson headed
U.S. Department of Justice documented
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“On March 15 1940 Attorney General Robert Jackson imposed a total ban on its usebythe Department…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.71
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed
Robert Jackson documented
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“The President authorized and directed the Attorney General "to secure information by listening devices [directed at] the conversation or other communicationsof persons suspected of subversive activities against the Government of the United …”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.71
Robert Jackson headed
United States Department of Justice documented
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“On March 15 1940 Attorney General Robert Jackson imposed a total ban on its use for the Department…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.89
Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered_assassination_of
Robert Jackson documented
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“President Roosevelt had authorized and directed Attorney General Jackson to approve listening devices…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.90
Robert Jackson worked_for
U.S. Department of Justice documented
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“President Roosevelt had authorized and directed Attorney General Jackson to approve listening devices…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.90
Robert Jackson worked_for
United States Department of Justice documented
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“The CHAIRMANThat is Senator Mathias previous point that once Attorney General Jackson became Mr Justice Jackson he took a different view…”
source: government document — Church Committee Hearings, Volume 5: National Security Agency and Fourth Amendment Rights · p.106
Robert Jackson worked_for
United States documented
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“In 1940 Attorney General Robert Jackson saw the same risk…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.20
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed
Robert Jackson documented
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“President Roosevelt used the term 'subversive activities' in a secret directive to Attorney General Robert Jackson on wiretapping in 1940…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.43
Robert Jackson worked_for
U.S. Supreme Court documented
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“Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson previously an Attorney General warned against growth of a centralized power of investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.307
Robert Jackson worked_for
U.S. Department of Justice documented
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“Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson previously an Attorney General warned against growth of a centralized power of investigation…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book II: Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.307
Robert Jackson worked_for
U.S. Department of Justice documented
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“Attorney General Robert Jackson advised Representative Hatton Summers on March 19 1941 'The only offense under the present law is to intercept any communication and divulge or publish the same'…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.286
Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed
Robert Jackson documented
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“President Roosevelt did use the term 'subversive activities' in a directive to Attorney General Robert Jackson on wiretapping in 1940…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.412
Robert Jackson worked_for
Federal Bureau of Investigation documented
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“Attorney General Robert Jackson was able to respond to criticism from Senator George Norris by declaring Mr Hoover is in agreement with me...…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.415
Robert Jackson worked_for
U.S. Supreme Court documented
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“Only in retrospect as a Justice of the Supreme Court did Robert Jackson recognize these dangers…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.417
Robert Jackson died_in
United States documented
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“Shortly before his death in 1954 he wrote I cannot say that our country could have no central police without becoming totalitarian…”
source: government document — Church Committee Final Report, Book III: Supplementary Detailed Staff Reports on Intelligence Activities and the Rights of Americans · p.417
Harry S. Truman appointed
Robert Jackson documented
“but higher duties called. All right, we're in May of 1945. Alan Dulles and OSS Chief Bill Donovan met in Frankfurt with Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson, who had just been named Chief U.S. War Crimes Prosecutor by the new pres…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 0:31
Robert Jackson removed_from_power
William J. Donovan documented
“On November 26, a few days after the trial began, Jackson wrote a letter to Donovan making it clear that their views were far apart and there was no role for the OSS chief on Nuremberg's team. By the end of the month, Donovan was gone. But …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 6:19
Robert Jackson exposed
William J. Donovan documented
“of Nuremberg. Jackson after having agreed to this began realizing that he had fallen into an OSS trap. It became clear to the Nuremberg prosecutor that Donovan and Dulles harbored ulterior motives and agenda that did not always mesh with th…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 1:55
William J. Donovan attempted_coup_against
Robert Jackson documented
“Donovan and Jackson began to grow in July when the OSS chief moved to take over what Nuremberg prosecutors referred to as the trial's economic case. As Wall Street lawyers, Donovan and Dulles considered themselves uniquely equipped to take …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 2:29
Robert Jackson removed_from_power
William J. Donovan documented
“was a part of FDR's Justice Department. He had taken on corporate interests like the Mellon family and fought tax evasion and antitrust battles. Well aware of the corporate conflict of interest that Donovan and Dulles brought to the Nurembe…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 3:31
Robert Jackson member_of
Nuremberg trials documented
“But the next three months brought Operation Sunrise, the Taris port crisis, and the breakdown of the U.S.-Yugoslav cooperation in prosecuting war criminals. By July 1945, Soviet suspicions that the Western allies were not complying with any…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:07:34
Robert Jackson member_of
Nuremberg trials documented
“and other Nazi occupation officials, Jackson noted, and the U.S. needed a uniform policy on this issue. Jackson, who was soon to be the chief U.S. prosecutor at the International Tribunal at Nuremberg, favored abandoning the international t…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12 @ 1:08:52
Robert Jackson warned
Nuremberg trials book_quoted
“The documentary was made by a Hollywood director, Billy Wilder, who was an Austrian born Jew who had fled Hitler, who compiled it from scraps of film from the U.S. Army Signal Corps. In his opening statement, Robert Jackson, the chief U.S. …”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner The Devil’s Chessboard Part 3 @ 42:56
Robert Jackson covered_up
Miklós Horthy documented
“So according to the U.S. Embassy reports of the day, because many felt a trial would undermine the state's future. The chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, Robert Jackson, promised Horthy that if he cooperated with the U.S. political agenda,…”
▶ The Colonels Corner The Splendid Blond Beast Part 12b @ 44:57
Allen Dulles recruited
Robert Jackson documented
“underlined the various ways that he could be of use as Jackson prepared the cases, including providing German witnesses for the prosecution as well as secret enemy documents. Jackson was delighted by Dulles' offer of assistance, noting in h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 0:58
William J. Donovan recruited
Robert Jackson documented
“underlined the various ways that he could be of use as Jackson prepared the cases, including providing German witnesses for the prosecution as well as secret enemy documents. Jackson was delighted by Dulles' offer of assistance, noting in h…”
▶ The Colonel’s Corner - The Devil’s Chessboard Part 4 @ 0:58
Mentions (24)
▶ 42:56
The documentary was made by a Hollywood director, Billy Wilder, who was an Austrian born Jew who had fled Hitler, who compiled it from scraps of film from the U.S. Army Signal Corps. In his opening statement, Robert Jackson, the chief U.S. …
▶ 0:31
but higher duties called. All right, we're in May of 1945. Alan Dulles and OSS Chief Bill Donovan met in Frankfurt with Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson, who had just been named Chief U.S. War Crimes Prosecutor by the new pres…
▶ 0:58
underlined the various ways that he could be of use as Jackson prepared the cases, including providing German witnesses for the prosecution as well as secret enemy documents. Jackson was delighted by Dulles' offer of assistance, noting in h…
▶ 1:55
of Nuremberg. Jackson after having agreed to this began realizing that he had fallen into an OSS trap. It became clear to the Nuremberg prosecutor that Donovan and Dulles harbored ulterior motives and agenda that did not always mesh with th…
▶ 2:29
Donovan and Jackson began to grow in July when the OSS chief moved to take over what Nuremberg prosecutors referred to as the trial's economic case. As Wall Street lawyers, Donovan and Dulles considered themselves uniquely equipped to take …
▶ 3:31
was a part of FDR's Justice Department. He had taken on corporate interests like the Mellon family and fought tax evasion and antitrust battles. Well aware of the corporate conflict of interest that Donovan and Dulles brought to the Nurembe…
▶ 5:22
The banker knew where much of the Nazi Germany's assets were hidden, which continued to make him valuable. Behind the scenes, Donovan took the shameless step of working out a deal with these two prominent defendants, offering them leniency …
▶ 5:51
Goring and Slatt, the prosecutors, were aghast. Telford Taylor, Jackson's assistant prosecutor, later called Donovan's actions ill-conceived and dangerous. Goring was a surviving leader and the symbol of Nazism. To put him forward as a man …
▶ 6:19
On November 26, a few days after the trial began, Jackson wrote a letter to Donovan making it clear that their views were far apart and there was no role for the OSS chief on Nuremberg's team. By the end of the month, Donovan was gone. But …
▶ 53:52
According to a highly embarrassing article that ran in the New York Herald Tribune, Wolfe enjoyed a pleasant summer by the lake with his family. That summer was the period of greatest jeopardy for Wolfe as the Nuremberg prosecutors selected…
▶ 1:07:34
But the next three months brought Operation Sunrise, the Taris port crisis, and the breakdown of the U.S.-Yugoslav cooperation in prosecuting war criminals. By July 1945, Soviet suspicions that the Western allies were not complying with any…
▶ 1:08:01
who was leading the U.S. negotiations towards establishing a military tribunal at Nuremberg. The ongoing Nuremberg planning discussions had become complicated by Russians' assistance that we incorporate agreements concerning turnover of pri…
▶ 1:08:24
All except the international cases are beyond the terms of my authority, except to advise my own government whether we have objections in any of the cases. Jackson was keenly aware of the political ramifications of the prisoner issue. This …
▶ 1:08:52
and other Nazi occupation officials, Jackson noted, and the U.S. needed a uniform policy on this issue. Jackson, who was soon to be the chief U.S. prosecutor at the International Tribunal at Nuremberg, favored abandoning the international t…
▶ 1:09:22
would be for each of the allies to set up its own tribunals and try prisoners by itself. That approach would be easier for me and faster, but it would be desirable to give an example of unity on the crime problem. So in other words, the Jac…
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engaged another Dulles agent, the former Axis Romanian ambassador, Gagori Gafencu, to write memoirs that stressed that Germany had been drawn into the war against its will and that choices of people like Slat as a result of that weren't the…
▶ 34:19
was still split over the issue of whether to bring him to trial. The U.S. hardliners favored prosecution, as did Jackson, but Jackson's most senior deputy, former SS chief William Donovan, strongly opposed the trial. Donovan argued that Sla…
▶ 34:44
and that a tough cross-examination of him on the witness stand would undermine the stability of Germany and our national security. Jackson, however, found himself hemmed in by his commitments to France and the Soviet prosecutors who strongl…
▶ 35:42
There's no way they're going to find him guilty. Okay, but while Bill Donovan did work behind the scenes to make sure that the prosecutors that actually did the cross-examination did so in a very strict manner, Jackson's eventual agreement …
▶ 44:57
So according to the U.S. Embassy reports of the day, because many felt a trial would undermine the state's future. The chief U.S. prosecutor at Nuremberg, Robert Jackson, promised Horthy that if he cooperated with the U.S. political agenda,…
▶ 45:23
Jackson then met with the Czechoslovakian and Yugoslavia war crimes officials, telling them that it would sit rather badly with the world if these countries tried the regent owing to Horthy's advanced age because he was over 70. In fact, Ja…
▶ 52:01
But that was not to be. Within weeks of the opening of the first, Robert Jackson recommended to Washington that the U.S. should not cooperate in any further trials, regardless of its commitment to Moscow. The state to state relations began …
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Instead, Jackson convinced Truman the U.S. should hold its own trials of Nazi defendants then in U.S. hands. These trials became known later as the later Nuremberg trials or more formally as subsequent proceedings. These later trials, prose…
▶ 9:09
We did not fight this war to destroy one dictatorship and build up another. We must preserve counterbalance against Russia. Colonel Robert Story, the U.S. Executive Trial Counsel at the International Military Tribunal and senior aide to Rob…