Judges

President Harry S. Truman (front row, left) leaves after giving a speech at the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) conference at the Lincoln Memorial. He is accompanied by (front row) Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter White, president of the NAACP; General Harry Vaughan and Captain James Foskett (second row, left to right); Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson and Senator Wayne Morse (third row, left to right, Vinson partly obscured by Foskett); and Attorney General Tom Clark (behind and to the left of Senator Morse in the bow tie).

Thomas Hart Benton addressing the gathering at the dedication of the mural, "Independence and the Opening of the West." At left, Eugene Savage, Rita Benton, former president Harry S. Truman, David D. Lloyd, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Wayne Grover, archivist of the United States, and Bess Wallace Truman seated.

From left to right, Earl Warren, Dean Acheson, and former President Harry S. Truman at the Harry S. Truman Library, Independence, Missouri.

Harry S. Truman being sworn in as presiding judge of the county court of Jackson County, Missouri. L-R: Edward Becker, County Clerk; Eugene Purcell, Judge Eastern District; Harry S. Truman, Presiding Judge; Judge William Beeman, Judge Western District.

Judge William H. Hastie, Assistant Solicitor, Department of the Interior, 1933-37; Judge of the District Court of the Virgin Islands, 1937-39; Dean, Howard University School of Law, 1939-46; Civilian Aide to the Secretary of War, 1940-42; Governor of the Virgin Islands, 1946-49; Judge, 3rd United States Circuit Court of Appeals, 1949-71; and Senior status, 1971-76.

From left to right, Paul "Mike" Westwood, former President Harry S. Truman, Earl Warren and Dean Acheson in Mr. Truman's office at the Harry S. Truman Library.

Chief Justice William Webb and Judges of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East listen to the final summation of the defense counsels at the War Crimes Trials held in the War Ministry Building, Tokyo, Japan.

Major General Myron C. Cramer (left), representative of the United States at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East, consults with his legal advisor, Lieutenant Colonel William E. Kuder, in the General's office in the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

The judges at the War Crimes Trials of the twenty-seven accused Japanese war criminals sit on the bench at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. Left to right: Judge Roling, Netherlands; Judge McDougall, Canada; Lord Patrick, Great Britain; Major General Myron Cramer, United States; Sir William Webb, Chief Justice, Australia; Judge Mei, China; Major General Zaryanov, Soviet Union; Judge Bernard, France; Judge Northcroft, New Zealand; and Judge Jaranilla, The Philippines. Others are unidentified.

Justice E. Stuart McDougall, Court of King's Bench, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, represented Canada at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. McDougall is seen standing in his chambers at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.