Henry T. King
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Trial of Erhard Milch. Front right is Telford Taylor (Chief Counsel). Across the table from him is Clark Denny (Chief Trial Counsel). Immediately to Taylor's right is Henry T. King (Assistant Counsel). | |
Born | Henry T. King Jr. May 27, 1919 Meriden, Connecticut, U.S. |
Died | May 9, 2009 | (aged 89)
Occupation | Lawyer |
Known for | U.S. prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, 1946-47 |
Spouse | Betty May Scranton |
Children | 3, including Dave |
Henry T. King Jr. (born May 27, 1919,
Life and work
King received his B.A. degree in 1941 from
Following his service at Nuremberg, King had a long career as counsel for several corporations, including the TRW Corporation, from which he retired in 1981.
In the 1990s, King was a member of the
As a part of preparing for the trial of Erhard Milch in 1946, King interviewed Albert Speer, one of the defendants who had been prosecuted at Nuremberg and convicted by the International Military Tribunal (the trial of the major war criminals). They later became friends.[1] In 1997 King published a book with Bettina Elles, The Two Worlds of Albert Speer: Reflections of a Nuremberg Prosecutor.[6] King wrote there that, "In a technological world, the magic concoction for evil consists of blind technocrats such as Speer led by an evil and aggressive leader such as Hitler."
King wrote more than 60 journal articles.[7] From the mid-1980s until his death, King was a professor at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where he also served as the U.S. Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute.[8] King also was a senior advisor to the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York;[5] Jackson was the chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials.
King was interviewed for the 2006 BBC docudrama Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial.
King was married for fifty years to the former Betty May Scranton. The couple had three children: Suzanne Wagner, Henry T King III, who died in 1993, and Dave King, a novelist.
Honors
In 2002, the
References
- ^ a b Ewinger, James; Segall, Grant (May 12, 2009). "Henry T. King Jr., Nuremberg prosecutor, Case Western Reserve University professor, dies at age 89". The Cleveland Plain Dealer.
- ^ a b Hevesi, Dennis (May 12, 2009). "Henry T. King Jr., Prosecutor at Nuremberg, Dies at 89". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "Henry T. King, Jr". Case Western Reserve University School of Law. Archived from the original on 2009-05-12.
- ^ King, Henry T. (1995). "The Nuremberg Context From The Eyes Of A Participant". Robert H. Jackson Center. Archived from the original on 2006-04-27. Transcript of remarks made on November 17, 1995 during "Nuremberg and the Rule of Law: A Fifty-Year Verdict," a conference held at The Judge Advocate General's School, United States Army, Charlottesville, Virginia, November 17–18, 1995.
- ^ a b "Henry T. King, Jr". Robert H. Jackson Center. Archived from the original on 2007-10-11.
- ISBN 0-7618-0872-8.
- ^ King, Henry T. (2009). "Publications". Case Western Reserve University Law School. Archived from the original on 2006-09-16.
- ^ "Canada-United States Law Institute". cusli.org.
External links
- Henry T King Jr - Daily Telegraph obituary
- Henry T. King International Law Tribute Fund's Tribute to Henry T. King and his career on YouTube.