Louis Nizer Papers, 1940-1994

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Series I: Correspondence



Box 1 Letters of condolence-letters to sick friends


Box 1 Letters of condolence-letters to sick friends


Box 1 Congratulating letters


Box 1 Letters responding to invitations


Box 1 Letters responding to invitations-2


Box 1 Letters forwarding reprinting of his writing


Box 1 Letters to Judges


Box 1 Letters to U.S. Political Figures, entertainment execs, Journalists, etc


Box 1 Letters to Artists-Actors


Box 1 Letters of Appreciation


Box 1 Letters of Introduction-Recommendation


Box 1 Letters of Introduction-Recommendation


Box 1 Letters to Publishers, Agents, etc.


Box 1 Letters to Authors


Box 1 Thank you letters


Box 1 Letters Re: What to do with Germany


Box 1 Society for prevention of WWIII


Box 1 Letters Re: Thinking on Your Feet & the Jury Returns


Box 1 Suggested Strategy for General Eisenhower


Box 1 Letters to various editors on various subjects


Box 1 Letters of invitation


Box 1 Perspective from the moon

Series II: Publications, 1940-1994



Box 2 Offprint, Recent Radio Law in Review, 1940


Box 2 "The Right of Privacy: A Half Century's Developments --Reprinted from the Michigan Law Review,, February1941


Box 2 German Justice, How the Nazi Courts Work, April 1942


Box 2 "Duty to Bargain in the Motion Picture Industry" --A Study of Compulsory Contracts in Action,, July 1943


Box 2 Reprinted from The Record, "the Nuremberg Verdict" An Apraisal, Vol. III, No. 7,, October 1946


Box 2 Dramatic Sketch, The New Voice, Nov 15, 1948


Box 2 "The Suicidal Bird," (Published in The Daily Compass), December 21, 1949


Box 2 Horizontal Religion, April 27, 1954


Box 2 Reprint from Motion Picture Herald., "Martin Quigley," (An Evaluation), 1960


Box 2 Chicago Daily News, What is Truth's Potent Weapon, May 18, 1963


Box 2 "The Lawyer in Television," (TV Guide), June 22, 1963


Box 2 "The Day that Will Not End" --Analysis & Commentary on the Warren Commission Report on the Assassination of Kennedy,, 1964


Box 2 When Did You Serve on a Jury?, March1964


Box 2 "The Safety of Our Future Residents," (Published in Herald Tribune), May 10, 1964


Box 2 "When Silence is a Crime," (Published in McCall's), October 1964


Box 2 McCall's Magazine, Can We Have a Fair Trial and a Free Press at the Same Time,, February1964


Box 2 "When Silence is a Crime," (Published in McCall's), October 1964


Box 2 Headlines vs, Justice, October 1968


Box 2 "Order in the Court," (Reader's Digest Reprint of the NY Times Magazine),, 1970


Box 2 NY Times Magazine, "What to Do When the Judge is Put Up Against the Wall,", April 1970


Box 2 NY Times, "What to Do When the Judge is Put Up Against the Wall,", April 5, 1970



Box 3 "Goodbye Harry," Cartoonist Profiles, Issue 26, June 1975


Box 3 Family Weekly, Ask Them Yourself, May 1978


Box 3 Article on Televising of Oral Argument in Court of Appeals --Published in New York Magazine,, 09/10/79


Box 3 "He Who Steals My Name (To Sue or Not to Sue)," (The Saturday Evening Post), August &, September 1980


Box 3 "Israeli Attack Within the Law" --Chicago Tribune, 1981


Box 3 Jewish Press, "Blame the Policeman. Ignore the Murderer,", 1982


Box 3 Is Israel's Conduct Against American Interests?, 1982


Box 3 NYT, Understanding Libel, August 11, 1983


Box 3 NY County Lawyers' Association, "Don't Give the First Amendment a Bad Name,", October 6, 1983


Box 3 Article on Mr. Bishop-"A Celebration of Teachers," (Diamond Jubilee of the National Council of Teachers of English),, 1985


Box 3 Chicago Tribune, "Tax Law as Social Engineer,", June 8, 1985


Box 3 Manuscript, Introduction to Clarence Darrow


Box 3 New York Times -- "How About Low-Cost Drugs for Addicts?" 18986


Box 3 Federal Litigation Guide, Article for Matthew Bender, October 1994


Box 3 Undated Publications, Undated


Box 3 Article on Russia (Later published in Reflections without Mirrors)


Box 3 "The Return of the Trojan Horse"


Box 3 The Strange Silence (A Reasoned Appeal to the Majority of Students)


Box 3 "What to Do With Germany"

Series III: Writings



Box 4 Biographical Materials & My Life in Court


Box 4 Reviews & Quotatons From "My Life in Court"


Box 4 Mss, My Life in Court --Introduction


Box 4 "His Life is Still in Court," Columbia College Today, Spring/Summer, 1991



Box 5 Catspaw


Box 5 Catspaw: Court Documents


Box 5 Catspaw: Louis Nizer Manuscripts


Box 5 Ctaspaw: Revision Draft, June 1990


Box 5 Catspaw, Correspondence with S. S. Vaughn


Box 5 Catspaw: Revision Draft, June 1990


Box 5 Catspaw, Correspondence with S. S. Vaughn


Box 5 Catspaw, Correspondence with S. S. Vaughn


Box 5 Catspaw, Correspondence with S. S. Vaughn



Box 6 Chicago Tribune Columns


Box 6 Column I, On Polution


Box 6 Column 2, Reflections Without Mirrors, 08/08/71


Box 6 Column IV, On Arab-Israel Conflict, March4, 1971


Box 6 Column V, On My Lai and Punishment of War Criminals, 3-10-71


Box 6 Column VI, on Khruschev's Secret Speech and His Memoirs, 3-16-71


Box 6 Column VII, on the Subject of Press Conferences, March31, 1971


Box 6 Column VIII, on Language, March1971


Box 6 Column IX, on Drugs, August 22, 1971


Box 6 Column XI, Our Boycott of the Film Festival in Moscow, 5/8/71


Box 6 Thought Drops: 1-12, August 29, 1971


Box 6 Column XV, Nixon's Visit to China


Box 6 Column XVI, Thought Drops 13-18, 09/12/71


Box 6 Column XVI, "A Different View of the Middle East,", 09/05/71


Box 6 Column XVIII, "The Miracle of Castle Hill,", 10/03/71


Box 6 Column XIX, Confrontation at Suez, October 17, 1971


Box 6 Column XX, Thoughts Drops 19-21, September 1971


Box 6 Column XXI, Some Judges Swell -- Others grow, October 10, 1971


Box 6 Column XXII, How to Unite the UN, 10-12-71


Box 6 Column XXIII, Mysteries of Money


Box 6 Column XXIV, Turning Defeat into Victory


Box 6 Column XXV, Nixon's Visit to Moscow


Box 6 Column XXVI, Thought Drops 22-26


Box 6 Thought Drops-Numbers 27-


Box 6 Column XXVII An Insurance Pact Among Dictators


Box 6 Column XXVIII, Will Cairo Be Underwater?


Box 6 Column XX_ _, Trial by Headline, 12-7-71


Box 6 Column XXX, Thought Drops-27-29


Box 6 Column XXXI, Rating Motion, January 16, 1972


Box 6 Column XXXIII, New Evidence in Kennedy Assassination


Box 6 Column XXXIV Coincidence and Negligence, January 14, 1972


Box 6 Column XXXV, Hughes and Hoaxes, 1-27-72


Box 6 Column XXXVI, Thought Drops --(30-33), February3, 1972


Box 6 Column XXXVII, No-Fault Divorce, 2-7-71


Box 6 Column XXXVIII, Alimony and Property Settlement, 2-7-72


Box 6 Column XXXIX, New Approach to Divorce and Property Division, February7, 1972


Box 6 Column XL, California Abolishes the Gas Chamber, 2-22-72


Box 6 Column XLI, Thought Drops -- 34-36, February22, 1972


Box 6 Column 42, The Communiqué that Wasn't, March13, 1972


Box 6 Column 43, How to Pick a Jury, 3-23-72


Box 6 Column 44, Tell me no Fortunes, 3-28-72


Box 6 Column 45, At Last -- A Cancer Cure


Box 6 Column 46, Our Future is in the Stars, 4-11-72


Box 6 Column 47, Smart They Are Not, 4-18-72


Box 6 Column 48, Thought Drops -- 37 & 38, April 25, 1972


Box 6 Column 49, Economics in a Thimble, 5-2-72


Box 6 Column 50, An Experiment on an Island, 5-9-72


Box 6 Column 51, An Experiment on an island: Part II


Box 6 Column 52, An Experiment on an island: Part III, 5-23-72


Box 6 Column 53, An Experiment on an island: Part 4


Box 6 Comments by Louis Nizer


Box 6 Columns with no #'s (Alphabetical order)


Box 6 Israel, December 19, 1971


Box 6 Mid-East Crisis, 12/05/71


Box 6 A Nation Can Be Libelled, Too, 07/11/71


Box 6 A Perspective from the Moon, Semptember 19, 1971


Box 6 Political Trials Are Not Political


Box 6 The Right to Breed Must Be Limited -- How?, July 20, 1971


Box 6 The Sexual Approach to Prison Reform


Box 6 Three Approaches to Obscenity, Jul;y 4, 1971


Box 6 Two Chinas, November 21, 1971



Box 7 Unpublished Articles


Box 7 Capital Punishment


Box 7 Confusion in the Goetz Case


Box 7 Freeing the Judge: How to Treat Treason in the Courtroom


Box 7 The Great Gap (Between Humanism and Science)


Box 7 The Great Theft


Box 7 How to Be a Good Witness


Box 7 How do you tell a liar?


Box 7 "Ideas For a Real Price"


Box 7 Unpublished, Iran: Rule of Probability


Box 7 Unpublished, Israel's Obstinancy, 1979


Box 7 "Let My People Go,", 1954


Box 7 "The New Invasion," (Unknown Whether Published), 1947


Box 7 "Peace"


Box 7 Pictorial History of the World's Great Trials From Socrates to Eichmann (Review by Louis Nizer)


Box 7 "President Waldeheim-A Legal Postscript,", 1986


Box 7 "Ransom" (Review by Louis Nizer)


Box 7 Unpublished, Settlements Are Legal, 1980


Box 7 "The Strange Silence,", 1969


Box 7 (Unpublished) There Is No Mystery-Psychological Study of the Kennedy Assassination,, December 19, 1973


Box 7 Unpublished, Impeachment or Censure, August 1974


Box 7 Women on Juries



Box 8 Short Stories


Box 8 Short Stories, "Be Judge For the Day,", 1963


Box 8 (June 1955 Issue-Esquire), "The Cutlass"


Box 8 October 1956 "My Father", October 1956


Box 8 "The Masseur"


Box 8 "Professor Terry and the Lady in Brown"


Box 8 "The Zipper"

Series IV: Addresses and Introductions, 1942-1980



Box 9 Address-Dinner to Pierre Van Paassen, "Pierre Van Paassen and Realistic Mysticism,", May 3, 1942


Box 9 Address: Jewish Army Dinner Honoring Robert Nathan, "The Right to Fight,", September 29, 1942


Box 9 Address-NY Country Lawyers Association, "The Jury Trial" 1945 ?, 1945


Box 9 "The Art of the Jury Trial,", September 1946


Box 9 Childcare, Godmothers League, March25, 1947


Box 9 Address: Address made at Hadassah, December 9, 1947


Box 9 Address-Annual Award of the Interfaith in Action Medal to Governor Herbert Lehman,, November 17, 1948


Box 9 Address-McCosker-Hershfield Dinner, December 4, 1948


Box 9 Address-National Conference of Christians and Jews, February4, 1949


Box 9 Address-Tendered to Milton Berle (Interfaith-in-Action Dinner), "Voting for God,", May 12, 1949


Box 9 Address-National Conference of Christians and Jews, "The Young Man and the Psychiatrist,", December 6, 1949


Box 9 Address -- Luncheon Meeting of the Theater Arts Group, Women's Division (Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of NY),, November 29, 1949


Box 9 Freeing the Judge, Address delivered before the Judicial Council of NY Bar Association,, January 28, 1950


Box 9 Address -- First Annual Awards Dinner of the Academy of Radio & TV, Best Arts & Sciences, Inc.,, March21, 1950


Box 9 Address -- Honor of Eddie Cantor & George Jessel (Jewish Theatrical Guild Dinner),, May 5, 1951


Box 9 Address -- Barney Balaban Testimonial Dinner (Westchesterb Jewish Center at the Commodore Hotel),, May 26, 1951


Box 9 Address -- Honoring Eric Johnson (National Conference of Christians and Jews), "The Sacrifice of the Ash Tree,", June 19, 1951


Box 9 Address -- Honor of Milton Berele By the Jewish theatrical Guild, May 3, 1952


Box 9 Address -- Awarding 50 Year Medal to Adolph Zukor (Masonic Foundation), October 14, 1952


Box 9 Address -- Brotherhood Awards Presented to Honorable Robert Murphy & General Carlos Romulo (Amusement Division Dinner: National Conference of Christians and Jews),, February4, 1954


Box 9 Address -- Independent order of Odd Fellows of the State of New York, "Paternity and Fraternity,", November 24, 1954


Box 9 Address: National Conference of Christians & Jews, January 13, 1955


Box 9 Address Honoring Harry Hershfield, "Man of the Mountain", May 17, 1955


Box 9 One World…Or None: We Have No Alternative, 1956


Box 9 "We Have No Alternative" (Correspondence), 1956


Box 9 Address -- Brotherhood Awards Presented to Robert Dowling, Thomas O'Neil & Samuel Rinzler, (Amusement Division Dinner: National Conference of Christians & Jews),, January 31, 1956


Box 9 Address -- Amateur Athletic Union Dinner (Honoring Mr. James Farley), April 24, 1956


Box 9 Address -- Honoring Goernor Adlai Stevenson at Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, August 1, 1956


Box 9 Address -- Stevenson-Kefauver Rally, September 12, 1956


Box 9 Lawyers of Greater New York, Dinner Honoring Judge Joseph A. Cox, October 23, 1956



Box 10 Address Presenting Harlan fiske Stone Award to Mr. Justice William O. Douglas, "Man and Judge", 1957


Box 10 Address -- Motion Picture Pioneer 19th Annual Dinner, (Honoring Joseph R. Vogel),, November 25, 1957


Box 10 Address: Speech made by Louis Nizer at the Harvard Club, October 13, 1956


Box 10 Address -- Association of Trial Lawyers, "A Lawyer's Prayer", May 5, 1960


Box 10 United Nations Address, June 12


Box 10 Address -- 11th Annual Forum of the New York Section National Council of Jewish Women, "Man and Morals.", January 26, 1960


Box 10 Address -- health for Peace Award Honoring Louis Nizer, "A Pebble in the Ocean," December 14., 1960


Box 10 Humanitarian Award to Eddie Cantor, February27, 1962


Box 10 Address -- The Circus, Saints & Sinners, October 23, 1962


Box 10 Address Before the 82nd Annual convention of the Tennessee Bar Association, "Ministers of Justice" Volum 31, Number 1, Fall, 1963


Box 10 Panel Discussion: Arbitration, February9, 1965


Box 10 Address: In Honor of Louis Nizer (The Beth Jacobs School for Girls), December 18, 1966


Box 10 American jewish Committee's Human Relations Award to Jack L.Warner, October 30, 1967


Box 10 Address at the national Mental Health Association, "Back to Mental health in the Twentieth Century", November 17, 1967


Box 10 Except From Address by Louis Nizer at the Ohio Bar Association, Peace Marches Addressed to Ho hi Minh, (1968 ?), Undated


Box 10 Public Hearing: WCBS TV, "Johnson vs. McCarthy.", March17, 1968


Box 10 Address -- national Conference of Christians and Jews (Honoring Leo Jaffe),, November 19, 1969


Box 10 Address Honoring General Omar Bradley, "Crystal Award,", April 1, 1970


Box 10 National Conference of Christians & Jews, "Brotherhood Must be the Answer,", December 3, 1970


Box 10 Undated Speech, 1970 ?, Undated, 1970


Box 10 Address at the 34th Annual Dinner of the Massachusetts


Box 10 Address at the 34th Annual Dinner of the Massachusetts Committee, May 20, 1971


Box 10 Address Before the Appellate Division Second Department, April 26, 1972


Box 10 Address -- Dean's Day Program at NY Law School, December 1, 1973


Box 10 Address -- Honoring Eric Sloane, January 25, 1974


Box 10 Address Made for United Jewish Appeal (Great Neck Temple), May 9, 1974


Box 10 "Literary Father of the Year" Address, May 22, 1974


Box 10 Address -- 36th Annual Maccabean Award Dinner Honoring Louis Nizer, February19, 1975


Box 10 "Looking into the Future", March1975


Box 10 Aliya (Organization which rehabilitates children in Israel), Honoring Otto Preminger,, June 8, 1978


Box 10 Pepperdine University School of Law Commencement Address, "Life University,", May 17, 1980


Box 10 Address -- Louis Nizer and Jack Valenti: Prime Minister's Medal of Israel,, October 28, 1980



Box 11 Interview Transcripts


Box 11 Church Affiliation Louis Nizer, 1955


Box 11 Esquire Interview of Louis izer by Allan Churchill, January 1955


Box 11 Replies to letter sent byb Mr. Gingrich on Churchill article on Louis Nizer,, 1954-1955


Box 11 Louis Nizer -- Interview Program Transcript (WCBS NEWS), May 3, 1964 "Newsmakers", May 3, 1964


Box 11 WNBC-TV, "Do Our Courts produce Justuce?", September 23, 1962


Box 11 WABC-TV, Conversation with Louis Nizer, February25, 1968


Box 11 Why Marriages Fail, January 23, 1969


Box 11 LHJ, Diana Lurie Interview with Louis Nizer, June 1969


Box 11 Medical Economics, See yourself as VIPs See You, February3, 1975


Box 11 NYCLA, Not Fit to Print, February1977


Box 11 Interview, Canadian Lawyer, September 1978


Box 11 Trial Diplomacy Journal, Volume 2, Number 1, Spring, 1979


Box 11 Trial Diplomacy Journal, Volume 3, Number 3, Fall, 1980


Box 11 Interview with Bottom Line, December 2, 1982


Box 11 Interview, Litigation, December 6, 1984


Box 11 Interview, Litigation, Spring & Summer, 1985



Box 12 Eulogies by Louis Nizer


Box 12 Eulogy -- Arde Bulova, Bulova --, March24, 1958


Box 12 Eulogy -- Ira Guilden, Guilden --, November 12, 1984


Box 12 Eulogy for Dr. Armand Hammer, Hammer -- Jan 4, 1991


Box 12 Eulogy for Stanley Niss, Niss --, July 24, 1969


Box 12 Eulogy for Louis Phillips, Phillips --, 1959


Box 12 Eulogy for Joseph Schenck, J. Schenck, October 26, 1961


Box 12 Eulogy for Nicholas Schenck, N. Schenck --, March7, 1969


Box 12 Eulogy for Sidney Schreiber, Schreiber --, June 8, 1979


Box 12 Eulogy for Cora J. Segal, Segal, July 7, 1970

Series V: Research Material



Box 13 Research Material, Education


Box 13 Research Material, John-Henry Faulk


Box 13 Research Material, Epigrams


Box 13 Research Materials, Federation of Jewish Philanthropies


Box 13 Research Material, Free Press


Box 13 Research Material, Paul A. Freund


Box 13 Research Material, Human Rights


Box 13 Research Material, Impeachment


Box 13 Research Material, Inflation


Box 13 Research Material, Israel #1


Box 13 Research Material, Israel #2


Box 13 Research Material, Israel #3


Box 13 Research Material, Israel #4



Box 14 Research Material, Jerusalem


Box 14 Research Material, Lynden Johnson


Box 14 Research Material, Justice


Box 14 Research Material, Keating


Box 14 Research Material, Lawyers


Box 14 Mental Health


Box 14 Movie Censorship


Box 14 Research Material, Music


Box 14 Research Material, Peace


Box 14 Research Material, Populism


Box 14 Research Material, Privacy



Box 15 Research Material, Abzug, Bella


Box 15 Research Material, Anti-Semitism


Box 15 Research Material, Authors


Box 15 Bigotry


Box 15 Research Material, Broadway


Box 15 Research Material, Benjamin N. Cardozo


Box 15 Research Material, Capital Punishment


Box 15 Research Material, Capital Punishment


Box 15 Research Material, Censorship


Box 15 Research Material, Chanukkah


Box 15 Research Material, Civil Liberties


Box 15 Research Material, Communism


Box 15 Research Material, Computers


Box 15 Research Material, Court of Special Sessions New York


Box 15 Research Material, Crime


Box 15 Research Material, Cuba Missile Crisis


Box 15 Research Material, Divorce


Box 15 Research Material, Judge William O. Douglas


Box 15 Research Material, Drugs



Box 16 Research Material, Religion & Law


Box 16 Research Material, Self Determination


Box 16 Research Material, Spyros Y. Skouras


Box 16 Research Material, Testimonials


Box 16 Research Material, Vietnam


Box 16 Research Material, Warren Communion


Box 16 Research Material, Jack L. Warner

Series VI: Rosenberg Trial Material



Box 17 Rosenberg -- TV Script


Box 17 "Implosion," Volume I


Box 17 "Implosion," Volume II


Box 17 "Implosion," Volume III


Box 17 Rosenberg Trials, Book Review


Box 17 Rosenberg Trial, National Committee to Reopen the Rosenberg Case


Box 17 Rosenberg Trial, Photographs in "the Implosion Conspiracy"


Box 17 Quotes from "Implosion Conspiacy"

Series VII: Messages and Papers of the Presidents



Box 18 Volumes I-XIV



Box 19 Volumes XV-XX

Series VIII: Scrapbooks and Press Clippings



Box 20 Scrapbooks and Press Clippings



Box 21 Scrapbooks and Press Clippings



Box 22 Scrapbooks and Press Clippings



Box 23 Scrapbooks and Press Clippings