Papers of Justice Harry A. Blackmun

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			SUPREME COURT Blackmun Papers Released Five years following the death of U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Harry Blackmun, the Library of Congress is releasing his papers. The release includes about 1,500 boxes of papers & roughly 38 hrs. of a video oral history, by Yale Law School Dean-designate Harold Koh. THE BLACKMUN INTERVIEW

This show covers over two hours of the first interview Koh did with Blackmun. Blackmun gives a tour of his office. He then sits for an interview in the Supreme Court library and speaks about his background and early years as a lawyer.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 21
This week's "America and the Courts" features a portion of a June 1995 session Justice Blackmun recorded without an interviewer. He speaks exclusively about his 1973 majority opinion, Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 28
This week's "America and the Courts" features a session in January 1995, Justice Blackmun talks about being named to the Supreme Court in 1970, his impressions of President Richard Nixon, who appointed him, and his confirmation hearings before the U.S. Senate.

JULY 6, 1994
Walking tour of Blackmun's Supreme Court Office & a sit-down session inside the Supreme Court chamber.

SEPTEMBER 16, 1994
Early life in St. Paul, MN, family lineage, parents, baby brother who died, sister Theo, boyhood memories of Warren Burger in St. Paul, early education, job at a Wyoming dude ranch, decision to attend Harvard.

JANUARY 17, 1995
8th Circuit, Tinker v. Des Moines, college demonstrations, Twins win the pennant, views of his mother, constitutional philosophy, moving to DC Apt. in Rosslyn, his first chambers at the Supreme Court, swearing-in, meeting the other justices.

DECEMBER 13, 1995
Justice Blackmun's final term in office, life after the Supreme Court, satisfaction in life and career, choosing Supreme Court justices, the justices he served with, oral argument at the Court, opinions and dissents he authored, his law clerks and personal staff. Also, The Supreme Court as a community, music at the Court, being a Midwestern justice, genealogy of the Blackmun seat, changes in the 20th century, the Court and the Constitution in the 21st century, impact of his career on his wife and family, reads his retirement letters.

On March 4, 2004, the Library of Congress released the judicial papers of the late Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun (1908-1999). Justice Blackmun was appointed to the Supreme court by Pres. Richard Nixon in 1970 and served on the Court until his retirement in 1994. In 1997, Blackmun gave his papers to the Library of Congress, as has been the tradition among many former chief justices and associate justices. Blackmun directed that his papers not be opened to the public until five years after his death, which occurred in 1999. This stipulation is a shorter lapse of time than is usual with other justices who have directed the release of their papers. Consequently, most of the justices with whom Blackmun served are still sitting on the Court.

Blackmun's judicial papers fill roughly 1500 boxes. Additionally, the Library of Congress is releasing approximately 38 hours of a video oral history that Justice Blackmun did in the year following his retirement. The interviewer is a former Blackmun clerk, Harold Koh, who will assume the position of Dean of Yale Law School later this year. Highlights from these oral interviews will air on the C-SPAN networks in March.

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YALE LAW SCHOOL BACKGROUND ON BLACKMUN INTERVIEWER HAROLD KOH

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