Western New York's Supreme Court Justice

By Rolland Kidder - October 15, 2003

Robert Jackson, a southern tier farm-boy and well-loved "country lawyer," went on to become an illustrious U.S. Supreme Court Justice and the lead prosecutor for the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials.

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