Papers of Katherine Fite Lincoln, 1941-1976 (bulk 1945-1948).

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Papers of Katherine Fite Lincoln, 1941-1976 (bulk 1945-1948).

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Correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, minutes, photographs, legal brief and an indictment, and other papers, primarily relating to Lincoln's service as an assistant to Justice Robert H. Jackson in the Office of the United States Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality from July through Dec. 1945. Lincoln's main responsibility was to assist in the preparation of evidence and arguments for use in the trials of Nazi leaders. The collection includes the vividly descriptive letters that she wrote to her parents, Emerson D. and Alice (Nye) Fite, while engaged in her historic assignment. Also included are several legal documents relating to the prosecution of Nazi leaders.

ca. 1500 p.

Harry S. Truman Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8052831

Harry S. Truman Library

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Jackson, Robert H. (Robert Houghwout), 1892-1954

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Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892 – October 9, 1954) was an American attorney and judge who served as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. He had previously served as United States Solicitor General and United States Attorney General, and is the only person to have held all three of those offices. Jackson was also notable for his work as Chief United States Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals following World War II. Jackson was born in Spring...

Fite, Emerson David, 1874-1953

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Fite earned his Harvard PhD in 1905. From the description of Municipal tramway legislation in England, public and private : [report in Government 10] , March 19, 1903. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074571 ...

Fite, Alice Nye

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Lincoln, Katherine F. (Katherine Fite), 1905-1989

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U.S. government attorney; assigned to Office of the US Chief of Counsel for the Prosecution of Axis Criminality, Nuremberg, Germany, 1945; b. Katherine Boardman Fite; married Francis F. Lincoln, 1957. From the description of Papers of Katherine Fite Lincoln, 1941-1976 (bulk 1945-1948). (Harry S Truman Library). WorldCat record id: 70958925 Katherine Boardman Fite Lincoln was born ca. 1905 in Boston, Massachusetts. She received her A.B. degree from Vassar College in 1926 and ...