Wright, J. Skelly. Papers, 1933-1987 (bulk 1948-1986).
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Papers, 1933-1987 (bulk 1948-1986).
Personal and professional correspondence, case files, opinions, memoranda, reports, speeches and writings, financial papers, teaching materials, clippings, printed matter, and photographs, documenting Wright's legal and judicial career. The bulk of the papers (1948-1986) pertains to his service as judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana (1949-1962), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (1962-1987), and the Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals of the United States (1981-1987). Includes files on criminal, regulatory, civil rights, and school integration cases, the Watergate burglary cover-up, and John W. Hinckley, Jr.'s arrest for the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan. Also includes material on Wright's tenure as a law professor at Loyola University, New Orleans, La. (1951-1961) and his early career as a notary public (1936-1942). Correspondents include Robert A. Ainsworth, Jr., Jack Bass, Hugo LaFayette Black, Wayne G. Borah, H. Payne Breazeale, John Robert Brown, Ben F. Cameron, Robert Coles, Herbert Christenberry, Kenneth Culp Davis, Eberhard P. Deutsch, Susan Estrich, Abe Fortas, G.W. Foster, Jr., John Paul Frank, Fred W. Friendly, Joseph C. Hutcheson, J. Edward Lumbard, Sidney C. Mize, Lee Mortimer, Thomas F. Murphy, Frank T. Read, Eugene V. Rostow, Ralph Slovenko, and Simon Ernest Sobeloff.
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