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Telford Taylor

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The Resume

    (February 24, 1908-May 23, 1998)
    Born in Schenectady, New York
    Brigadier General
    Succeeded Robert H. Jackson as chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg Trials (1946-48)
    Wrote 'Grand Inquest: The Story of Congressional Investigations' (1955), 'Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy' (1970), 'Munich: The Price of Peace' (1979), and 'The Anatomy of the Nuremberg Trials: A Personal Memoir' (1992)

Why he might be annoying:

    While serving in England during World War II, he conducted an affair with a married British officer, leading to the breakup of both marriages.
    He said that aviators participating in bombing missions over North Vietnam should be prosecuted as war criminals.
    He visited Hanoi with singer Joan Baez (1972).

Why he might not be annoying:

    He worked in military intelligence during World War II and helped negotiate an intelligence-sharing agreement between the US and UK (1943).
    He denounced Joseph McCarthy as 'a dangerous adventurer' and his tactics as 'a shameful abuse of Congressional investigatory power.'
    He served as a technical advisor and narrator for the Playhouse 90 production of 'Judgment at Nuremberg.' (1959)
    He criticized the court martial of William Calley for not including higher-ranked officers involved in the My Lai massacre.
    'The Nation' wrote, 'The human rights movement owes much of its legal foundation to the work of Gen. Telford Taylor.... Nuremberg gave legitimacy to the concept that the world had something to say about how governments treated their own citizens.'
    He received the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel for 'helping to foster the American public's understanding of the law and the legal system.'

Credit: C. Fishel


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