An aerial shot of the courtroom showing Pastor Gerecke speaking at the Thanksgiving Day service in Nuremberg in 1945. Justice Jackson’s head is bowed respectfully—perhaps in keeping with his assignment from President Truman and U.S. representational role, his general irreligiousity notwithstanding. And throughout the courtroom, many other heads are bowed too. Courtesy photo
In summer 1953, Justice Robert H. Jackson wrote to an old friend, Father Edmund A. Walsh, S.J. He was a Catholic priest, the Vice-President of Georgetown University, and the Regent of its School of Foreign Service. Father Walsh then had been hospitalized for many months, and Justice Jackson was writing, actually while on vacation in California, to inquire about Walsh’s health and to wish him well.
Justice Jackson and Father Walsh had been friends for many years. They became acquainted in Washington, D.C., in the 1930s.
