ABSTRACT
Jackson, Robert H. (1892-1954) U.S. chief prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials. A former U.S. attorney general and associate justice of the Supreme Court, Jackson took leave of the court on his appointment by President Harry S Truman to be the U.S. chief of counsel to the In ternational Military Tribunal (q.v.) at Nuremberg. He was foremost in establishing the organization, jurisdiction, and conduct of trial procedures. His cross-examination of Hermann Goring (q.v.) was one of the most notable events of the trial. The tri bunal ruled that defendants were allowed to give full answers to questions as they deemed appropri ate. Although Jackson demonstrated Goring’s di rect participation in the worst Nazi crimes, Goring attempted what Jackson specifically wanted to avoid, propagandizing of the proceedings by de fendants’ justification of the Nazi cause.
