Books, documentaries and letters can help us to get to know
people who did great things. In the case of Robert Jackson,
"great things" mean being the first person to serve as U.S.
Solicitor General, Attorney General and Supreme Court justice,
as well as serving as the chief prosecutor for the U.S. at the
Nuremberg Trials, tribunals established to prosecute Nazi war
criminals after World War II. But listening to people who worked
and lived with Jackson can tell us so much more. Times Observer
photo by Josh Cotton An intimate view From left, Chief
Prosecutor for the Special Court of Sierra Leone David Crane,
Robert Jackson biographer John Q. Barrett, former Jackson law
clerk E. Barrett Prettyman, Jackson’s grandson Thomas Loftus and
Jackson Center founder Greg Peterson participate in a panel
discussion at the Struthers Library Theatre on Friday night in
advance of the debut showing of ‘Liberty Under Law,’ the first
feature-length film on Jackson’s life. That was the case for the
several hundred people at the St