Samuel Simon Leibowitz papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 3923

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

Leibowitz, Samuel S., 1893-1978. (Person)
Hancock, Elise (Interviewer, Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Samuel Simon Leibowitz earned his B.A. and his LL.B. from Cornell University. As a lawyer, he defended, and ultimately exonerated, the Scottsboro Boys. He later became a judge on the New York Supreme Court, where he remained until mandatory retirement at age 76.

Extent

4 cubic feet. (4 cubic feet.)

Additional Description

Abstract

Includes papers relating to the career and interests of Samuel Simon Leibowitz, who earned his B.A. and his LL.B. from Cornell University. As a lawyer, he defended, and ultimately exonerated, the Scottsboro Boys. He later became a judge on the New York Supreme Court, where he remained until mandatory retirement at age 76.

Physical Description

Correspondence, notes, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, articles, legal documents, photographs, and audiotapes.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: M. Warren
Date completed:: October 1982
EAD encoding:: Jude Corina, May 2016