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I’ve become quite the book worm over the past week, nearly finishing three large books…. One about Freddie Mac, Volkswagen Emissions Scandal and and one on Great Lakes pollution.
I’ve become quite the book worm over the past week, nearly finishing three large books…. One about Freddie Mac, Volkswagen Emissions Scandal and and one on Great Lakes pollution. 📚 I enjoy reading only about the most uplifting topics.
Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall Oral History, Oct 2 2017
"Thurgood Marshall was sworn in as the nation’s first African American Supreme Court Associate Justice on October 2, 1967. A 1969 oral history interview with Justice Marshall conducted for the LBJ Presidential Library by T.H. Baker, who headed the LBJ oral history program. Also, a call between President Johnson and Thurgood Marshall when he was the U.S. Solicitor General. Harvard Law School Professor Mark Tushnet, who clerked for Justice Marshall and whose books include: “Making Civil Rights Law: Thurgood Marshall” and the “Supreme Court, 1956-1961” talked about working for Justice Marshall. "
Thurgood Marshall
Today in 1967, Thurgood Marshall was sworn into the US Supreme Court.
17 OF CAMDEN 28 FOUND NOT GUILTY – The New York Times
"CAMDEN, N. J., May 20—A jury of five men and seven women today found 17 members of the Camden 28 not guilty of breaking into the Federal Building here in [August 22] 1971 and destroying draft files, even though the defendants admitted having done so and 80 Federal Bureau of Investigation agents caught them at it."
"The verdict was the first total legal victory for the antiwar movement in five years of such draft‐record incidents."
PBS Documentary – The Camden 28
The Camden 28
"Early Sunday morning, August 22, 1971, then-FBI director J. Edgar Hoover and Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell announced that 20 antiwar activists had been arrested the previous night attempting to break in and vandalize a Camden, New Jersey draft board office. Five days later, eight more plotters were indicted. Charged with conspiracy to remove and destroy files from draft, FBI and Army intelligence offices, destruction of government property and interfering with the Selective Service system, members of the "Camden 28" faced up to 47 years in federal prison. Who were these dangerous radicals that America's premier law enforcement agency so proudly took down? They included four Catholic priests, a Lutheran minister and 23 members of the "Catholic Left."
"What happened in the courtroom after the arrests, however, may be the most astounding thing recounted by the film. In a trial that lasted 63 days, the plotters proclaimed their guilt. "I ripped up those [draft] files with my hands," declared the Rev. Peter D. Fordi, adding, "They were the instruments of destruction." In the best tradition of civil disobedience, and fully expecting to pay for their stand, the Camden activists asked the jury to "nullify the laws" against breaking and entering in this case, and to acquit them because citizens had a right to stop an "illegal and immoral" war. They also asked the jury to acquit them on the grounds that the raid would not have taken place without the help of an admitted FBI double-agent."
"After three days of deliberations, a jury of seven women and five men returned a verdict of not guilty on all charges. According to The New York Times, "the defendants . . . and 200 supporters . . . burst into cheers, wept, hugged one another and sang a chorus of 'Amazing Grace'," a moment reenacted with gusto at the reunion. The acquittals represented the first legal victory for the antiwar movement in five years of such draft board actions and prosecutions. The jury's verdict moved Supreme Court Justice William Brennan to call the proceeding "one of the great trials of the 20th century."