White House Central Files (Johnson Administration). 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. White House Subject Files on Judicial and Legal Matters

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White House Central Files (Johnson Administration). 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. White House Subject Files on Judicial and Legal Matters

White House Central Files (Johnson Administration). 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969. White House Subject Files on Judicial and Legal Matters

1963-1969

https://catalog.archives.gov/id/591583

This series relates to judicial and legal matters and includes material pertaining to the judiciary and judicial procedure; crimes and criminal procedure including criminals, crime conditions, and investigations; and legal material of a general nature pertaining to claims, litigation, decisions, opinions, interpretations, and notaries. The series includes material on riots and demonstrations, wiretapping, gun control, the Safe Streets Act of 1968, the National Council on Crime and Delinquency, the Convention of Foreign Arbitral Awards, and the legality of the Vietnam War. Materials on presidential pardons and requests for amnesty, clemency and pardons relate to both civilian and military cases, as well as the commutation of sentences for the group arrested at the 1965 White House sit-in. Materials on civil matters include claims and litigation against the Federal government; litigation over Nebraska Law LB 764; Littell v. Udall, a suit involving negligent operation of the Presidential helicopter; a civil suit of John R. Dunning; Indian Claims Commission; automobile injury lawsuits; representation of federal regulatory agencies in court proceedings; the House Un-American Activities Committee; the Atlantic Coast Live Railroad Company, et al. v. Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; the Convention of International Judicial Assistance recommended for Submission to the Senate; the Fair Labor Standards Act Amendment of 1966; claims concerning the award of government contracts; and claims against the government as a result of riots in Washington, DC in April 1968. Anti-trust cases covered in the series include: National General Corporation; General Electric's purchase of Landers, Frary and Clark Company; Times Mirror Company; Hazel-Atlas Glass Division of Continental Can Company; Schlitz Brewery; E. W. Scripps Company; Norwich Pharmacal Company; the San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle; International Circulation Distributors; Seaboard Airline-Atlantic Coast Line; Norfolk & Western Nickel Plat-Wabash; North Pacific-Great Northern-Burling; Pennsylvania-New York Central; Union-Rock Island; and anti-trust actions against bread and milk companies. The files include a paper written by James S. Gordon, “An Experiment in Preventive Antitrust: Judicial Regulation of the Motion Picture Exhibition Market under the Paramount Decrees.” Criminal matters in the files relate to crimes, criminals, prisoners, warrants of extradition, crime and delinquency prevention programs, law enforcement statistics, the federal fight against organized crime and racketeering, complaints about Joseph Valachi's autobiography, a Washington, D.C. crime report, a national policy academy, the Commission on Causes and Prevention of Violence, gun control, capital punishment and the First National Conference on Crime Control. The segment of the series related to criminal matters also includes material on the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. It also includes material on presidential assassinations and includes clippings on a reported plot to assassinate President Johnson; a report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy (JFK); and letters from the general public on the JFK assassination. It includes a telegram from Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda regarding the attack on Ambassador Edwin O. Reichauser. Material on extradition and hijacking includes the North Korean seizure of the USS Pueblo; the attempt to secure the release of the Southeast Airline pilot's wife detained in Cuba; and the seizure of a North American tuna vessel by Panamanian officials. Legal decisions, opinions and interpretations include the reorganization of the Office of Economic Opportunity; subsidized wage scales on subsidized U.S. flag ships; use of marshals, troops, and other federal personnel for law enforcement in Mississippi; the Report of the Commission on International Rules of Judicial Procedure; and the Spee-Flo Manufacturing Corporation v. Binks Manufacturing Company. Files related to the Attorney General include an opinion on the “Exemption of Resident Aliens from Military Service Pursuant to Treaties, Bar to Eligibility for Citizenship”; the vacancy in the position of Chief Justice; opinions on the legality of serving on various boards and commissions; the Attorney General's opinion on compensation for removal of highway billboards; Nuclear Ship (NS) SAVANNAH; executive agreements waiving sovereign immunity and limitation of ship owner's liability; and the receiving of legislation from Congress during the President's absence. Materials related to judicial matters include Armour and Company v. United States and Freeman; the grand jury report on the accident involving the Robert F. Kennedy funeral train; United States v. William Wallace Barron; University Committee to End the War in Viet Nam v. Lester Gunn, Sheriff of Bell County, Texas; lawsuit involving Texas Southern University; and Jack Ruby v. the State of Texas. Juvenile delinquency is addressed in the materials related to the Juvenile Delinquency Bill, 1967-1968; the National Council on Crime and Delinquency; the Great Society and youth programs; District of Columbia crime; the President's messages on juvenile delinquency; the Haryou Act; the National District Attorneys Association; and the President's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency. Topics related to law enforcement include law enforcement assistance; police training; the Law Enforcement Assistance Program; acts of bravery; complaints of police inadequacies; racial violence in urban centers; and suggestions for the White House Conference on Law Enforcement, 1964. This series contains materials relating to Secret Service protection for the First Lady traveling on commercial airlines; Secret Service protection for Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Richard M. Nixon, Lester Maddox, George McGovern, the Chief Justice, and the Kennedy family; and Secret Service protection for widows and minor children of former presidents. Files related to lawyers and legal aid include recommendations on appointments and recruitment of government attorneys; the President's meeting with the National Bar Association on October 14, 1966; and a report of the Office of Economic Opportunity on legal services programs for 1966. The files include material on missing persons, including documents relating to the disappearance and murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi and other missing persons are included in this series. Materials related to war claims and alien property include documentation on the Hawes family and Matagorda Island; the Jewish Restitution Successor Organization; transferring jurisdiction over certain blocked assets from the Attorney General to the Secretary of the Treasury; General Aniline and Film Corporation; the claims agreement with Yugoslavia; claims of shareholders of General Dyestuff Corporation; and Austrian assets. This series contains letters, memorandums, clippings, publications, reports, petitions, legal case files, notices, briefs, pamphlets, and brochures.

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