Samuel Simon Leibowitz papers, 1939-1976.
Collection Number: 3923
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Samuel Simon Leibowitz papers, 1939-1976.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
3923
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.
Creator:
Leibowitz, Samuel S., 1893-1978.
Hancock, Elise
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
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.
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".
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Samuel Simon Leibowitz papers, #3923. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Capone, Al, 1899-1947
Einstein, Albert, 1879-1955
Subjects:
Judges -- Biography.
Lawyers -- Biography.
Prison reformers.
Narcotics.
Juvenile delinquency.
Drug abuse.
Criminals.
Capital punishment.
Sacco-Vanzetti Trial, Dedham, Mass., 1921
Scottsboro Trial, Scottsboro, Ala., 1931
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Capital punishment
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Great Britain Royal Commission on Capital Punishment
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1949-1953 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Capital punishment statistics
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1950-1964 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Religion; Black and Poor; Deterent - notes and articles
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1956-1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
D.A. Association Forum on Capital Punishment
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Jan. 27, 1961 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Symposium at D.A. Association; SSL and D.A. Maskell TV debate; SSL reply to CBS editorial;
Judge's poll; SSL - Sellin debate; SSL minutes - Stokes and Garner cases; Ch. 5 discussion
- Lyons and Brown, Mar. 18, 1973
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1961-1973 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
The Open Mind, NBC-TV - A Debate on Capital Punishment
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Feb. 18, 1962 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence re: Open Mind
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1961-1962 |
| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Public hearing on capital punishment
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Dec. 7, 1962 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Testimonial and speech notes - New York Assembly
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Oct. 1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
NYS Legislative Committee on Revision of Penal Law
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Dec. 7, 1962 |
| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Court of Common Please, Delaware Co.
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May 2, 1973 |
| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Coram Nobis hearing: The People of NYS vs. Raymond Gardner
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Sept. 23, 1969 |
| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Taxi drivers; Taxi News
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Proposed death penalty bill
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1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Public hearing - CBS-TV
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July 9, 1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Correspondence
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1972 |
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Notes, addresses
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Assembly hearing
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Oct. 16, 1972 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
GABE Ch. 5
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Mar. 18, 1973 |
| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Young lawyers
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Mar. 30, 1973 |
| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Clippings
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1961-1976 |
| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Pro and con press
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1960-1973 |
| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Photographs: Hitler, Hauptmann, Lepke, Snyder, and Gray
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Juvenile delinquency
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Notes for speeches
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1955-1961 |
| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence, notes, clippings
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1957-1961 |
| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Talk, NY Young Republic Club
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1959 |
| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Peoria Bar Association
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1961 |
| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Notes and clippings
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1953-1958 |
| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Clippings
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1960-1974 |
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Murtagh, John M. (Judge) People of NYS vs.
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Legal documents, Kings Co., NY, stenographers minutes
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1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Correspondence, legal documents
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Narcotics
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Major articles
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1963-1967 |
| Box 1 | Folder 28 |
Hearings before the Select Committee on Crime, House of Representatives
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1970 |
| Box 1 | Folder 29 |
Clippings: law enforcement, police - D.A.'s; courts
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1970-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
Narcotics - correspondence or copies of letters: Ed. Benes, Mitchell; Paul L. Perito;
Ambassador Arthur K. Watson; William J. Durkin; John E. Ingersoll; Congressman Vanick;
Sen. Murphy; Gov. Rockefeller; Sen. Edward M. Kennedy; Marseille - Cusser interview;
Blount urges boycott before Congressional committee
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1970-1971 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Press clips re: Rockefeller tough laws
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Articles
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| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
Before legislative commission
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| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
Newsday series: "The Heroin Trail"
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1973 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
Clippings and articles
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1970-1973 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Speech material, various topics; Congressional hearing; drug abuse in suburbia
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1970-1973 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Scaglia, Francois
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1962-1963 |
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Prisons
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Prisons - articles: conditions and proposed reforms; parole
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Addresses: Middle Atlantic states
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1959 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Clippings
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Correspondence
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1939-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Prisons
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Speech
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Mar. 19, 1959 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Testimony (Dunne)
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Mar. 21, 1970 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Sen. Dunne report
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Oct. 5, 1970 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
News clips
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Prison newsclips
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1970-1971 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Prison newsclips
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1970-1971 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Meany (correspondence with)
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1959 |
| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Age of Machinery
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Census and miscellaneous
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Leniency
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Prison riots
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1970-1972 |
| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Attica, articles: Time ("A Model Prison"), Newsweek, U.S. News
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Auburn: Becker
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Prison and reform, sentencing
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1972-1974 |
| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Notes correspondence, articles
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1949-1958 |
| Box 2 | Folder 13 |
Correspondence, notes, articles, speeches
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1952-1968 |
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Miscellaneous
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| tr.489-490 |
Transcript of an interview Leibowitz gave in 1971 to WVBR Radio broadcast ("Newsbeat")
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1971 | |
| Box 2 | Folder 14 |
Not classified: press clips, illiteracy, schools, Miami, Columbia Law School, Mad
Bomber
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1941-1972 |
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Tapes: 97 tapes covering the following subjects:
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Scope and Contents
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| Box 3 |
Tapes: 97 tapes covering the following subjects:
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| Box 4 |
Tapes: 97 tapes covering the following subjects:
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