Discussion opener for GRGR(5)

[Paul Mackin]

j minnich asks:

Would that've been Robert Jackson, prosecutor at Nuremburg, and Robert H.
Jackson, U.S. Attorney General in 1940?  These brief mentions of Robert
Jackson and Robert H. Jackson (both referenced against a single index entry)
appear in _American Swastika_ by Charles Higham.   My apologies in advance
for taking the bait wiv respect to this "People Magazine stuff."


According my Encyclopaedia Britannica (15th ed.) Justice Robert H.
Jackson was chief prosecutor for the U.S. at the trials. (19:555)

All the same guy I guess.

The war crimes article saw fit to quote that gentleman's report to
President Truman:

One of the chief obstacles to this trial was the lack of a 
beaten path. A judgment such as has been rendered shifts the power of the precedent to the support of these rules of law.

Now what could THAT mean? Any lawyers present? Probably relates to fact
not all defendents were convicted and executed. A sort of aplogy for this
perhaps? What would Marsha Clark have said?

			Paul M.