Miscellaneous
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Includes correspondence, notes and manuscripts for speeches, testimonials and debates, reports, newspaper clippings and articles, legal documents, photographs, and tapes pertaining to subjects and criminal cases of interest to Leibowitz, including capital punishment, prison reform, narcotics, and juvenile delinquency.
Also, tape recording and transcript of an interview with Samuel Leibowitz discussing his background, his education at Cornell, and his career as a lawyer and judge, ca. 1971 (the interviewer is only referred to as John).
Also, a transcript of an interview Leibowitz gave in 1971 to WVBR Radio broadcast ("Newsbeat"), in which he discusses prisoner rehabilitation, Manson trial, Scottsboro case, police brutality and civilian review boards, police corruption, victimless crimes (drugs), Cornell Law School, political activism, Al Capone, first degree punishment, Sacco and Vanzetti case, Governor Rockefeller, political cases, young attorneys, and Einstein; the transcript is numbered "tr.489-490".
Dates
- 1939-1976.
Creator
- From the Collection: Leibowitz, Samuel S., 1893-1978. (Person)
- From the Collection: Hancock, Elise (Interviewer, Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
4 cubic feet. (4 cubic feet.)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
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