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DOCUMENT - 49
DATE - 9/20/71
QDMMUEIQATION Letter from J. Edgaz Hoover to Hugo L= Black
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TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES RELEASED 1
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Honorable ugg;g. Black
Associatewdusticemofwthe Supreme Court of the United states ¬§E¬:! 4%;United States Naval Hospital
National Naval Medical Center
Bethesda, Maryland 2001.4 /255,
My dear Mr. Justice:
All of us in the FBI were indeed sorry
to learn that the Supreme Court is losing one of
its most distinguished members. You can take
pride in your long and dedicated career and your
outstanding contributions to the legal profession
will serve as an inspiration to those who follow
you on the bench.
I am certain your decision to retire was *__
a most difficult one, but I know your friends and "admirers over the world will agree that you have z
earned your leisure. I want to extend my very
best wishes to you for all possible success in any
future endeavors, and I trust you will not hesitate
to let me know whenever I can be of assistance. '
f ]EEE;?~1 Sincerely yours, n
SEP201971 1. E1122: Hoover "7"I .- c H 1' Fm pm?
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_ Letter from Mri Hoover to Mrs; Black
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Mrs. Hugo
- Dear HIE.
9292~ I was deeply saddened by the news of the
1 Justice's passing and offer my heartfelt sympathy to
you.
The country has lost a wise and prudent
leader. The indelible mark he made on our society
by his lonq and distinguished service on the Supreme
Court will insure or him his rightful place in the
-ax history of our_great Nation. His full and fruitful
§ life was dedicated to the beet interests of all citi-92J zone and I do hope you will find solace in the knowledge /;7_J92 that we share your sorrow. k/Us
:3; If there is any-way in which I can be of
help please let me know.
Sincerely yours,
NOTE: Bufiles disclose cordial relations with Justice and Mrs.
Black. A letter was sent to Justice Black on 9/20/71 upon his
retirement. Mrs. Black has toured the Bureau on several occasions
and has met and been photographed with the Director. Home address
per Bufile. U__* i REC 25»i.'ij-Ell-1:, Q I ,?;:,!3_...-A/Z .-AWT:sel ! -_¢ -
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DATE - 1/16/72
CDHMUNICAEION ' Letter from Mrs. Black
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January 16391972
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With deep gratitude, I cknowledge the letters A
you wrote in regard to Hugo's retirement and death --
I was able to read your very nice letter to him about
his retirement and it pleased him.
I miss him more than I can tell you, but I shall. Callahan ____
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mmdt try not to dwell on my great loss, but, instead, remember ,1the fourteen years of happiness I had with this warm and kl.. . 1, J wonderful man
It was very kind of you to write, and I apologize for the
tardiness of my reply. _
With best wishes to you, I am
, V_ /2. i fl/,_'p I W Sincerely/I /- ..--//_',-I; //..-»/;./ E1izabeth Black
619 South Lee St.
Alexandria, Virginia 22314
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By communication 3/25/69 U. S. Secret Service forwarded a letter '
mailed from Denver, Colorado, to the victims. The communication terms
the victims communists and criticizes them for overturning the conviction
of Dick Gregory. It contains veiled threat to the victims. U. S. Secret
Service in their communication stated the original letter was received from
U. S. Capitol Police on 3/24/69. The communication from Secret Service
does not state if the victims are aware of the existence of it. The Liaison
Section, therefore, will insure that the victims offices are put on notice
with regard to this communication. Results will be furnished to Victims
offices when received.
The Lab is requested to conduct appropriate examination concerning
the original communication and furnish the results to DN & WFO. The Ident
Div. is requested to conduct appropriate latent fingerprint examination and
advise the same offices the results.
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_ Dear_Fellow Commrade,
Was glad to see where you stood up for your "Comrade"
1 gick gregory, and overturned his conviction! At least
you communists stick & stink together! will be grateful
_ when God sees fit to remove your kind from this earth,
and I hope it wont be long. Its Just to bad an Oswald
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praying for your Assinations
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TO SUPREME COURT JUSTICEE EARL YARREN LLIRH
ORVILLE DOUGLAS AND HUGO LAFAYETTE BLACK ~ VICTIMS
EXTORTION
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4/4/69~
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Envelopo postmarked "DENVER, C0 3A PM 12 MAR 1969"
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Q2 Accompanying one-page handwritten letterbeginniug "Dear
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Result of exaazination:
Specimens Q1 and Q2 were searched through the
appropriate secuions of the Anonymous Letter F113 without
effecting an identificotioa; copies have been added thereto.
Ho watermark, indented writing. or other significant
feature was obseraed in specimens Q1 and Q: which woula indicate
the immediate source of this material.
Physical characteristics of these 5pGCim¢hB have been
recorded and are being retained in the Laboratory for possible
future fefcrence.
The submitted evidence has been photouraphed and
is temporarily retained.
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DENVER, COLORADO, MAILED TO
COURT JUSTICES EARL WARREN,
QWILLIAM ORVILLE ooustas AND7 HUGO LAFAYETTE BLACK -v,<p
xxxeaxxmm exroattomExamination requested by: Bulet to Denver l 4/4/695un¢nw- _
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Examination requested: Date received:Document-Fingerprint A/4/6
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envelope used to mail it bearing the
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Inasmuch as this cowmunication contains voilo
throats, Denver proxytly bring it to tho nttcti of
apgrcpriato USA for a proseoutivo Cocision undur the Feeral
Extortioa statute. Denverna are avis= ap;ropriat= local
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. This latter wad ratcivq at tho Euroau from U. S,
Secret Service as an enclosure to their memo datcd 3/25/E5.
The original is bring examined in the Laboratory and you
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Submit rosu1tsi2no later than 4/16/69. '
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t - By cornmunication 3/25/69 U. S, Secret Service forwarded a letter _
; .mailed from Denver, Colorado, to the victims. The communication terms
the victims communists and criticizes them for overturning the conviction
iii Dick Gregory. It contains vetted threat to the victims. U. 5. Secret
Service in their communication stated the original letter was received from
U. S. Capitol Police on 3/24/69. The comrnunication from Secret Service
_' does not state if the ctims are aware of the existence of it. The Liaison>
H Section, therefore, will insure that the victims otfices are put on notice
_ with regard to this communication. Results will be furnished to victims
. offices when received.
_ ' The Lab is requested to conduct appropriate ertarnirlation concerning
the original C0mI:1l.i:1iCal;iOn and furnish the results to DN JIFO. The Ident
" _Dlv. is requested to conduct appropriate latent fingerprint examination and
advise the same oices the results.
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Date; March 25, 1969
BY Lxgrsou G.M. McLeod
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Attn: Special Agent Rd hner ' ,0 h1- -"FROM = JAMES J. ROWLEY, nznrcroai ' ' * J
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Dear Fe c" "
was glad to see where you stood up for your "Comrade"
dick gregory, and overturned his conviction! At least
. you communists stick & stink togetherl will be grateful
when God sees fit to remove your kind from this earth,
and I hope it wont be long. iIts just to bad an Oswald
or James Ray_ect cannot run wild among you filthy crudslh
- A Non Communist Taxpayer
J praying for your Assinations
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the_Metropolitan Police Department, place unanown. He stated his
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any further information concerning tnis matter he would advise the
Bureau.
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JUSTICE HUO7BLACF
Howard Fletcher from the NWO called the
Bureau with furtter reierence to tne confused report whicn
gave"to"the_Bureau
shot at Justice Hugo BlASAC
a weshiggtgn ?6§t newspaoer'beporte?
indicating tnet eoweone had taken e.
of the U. S. Sutreme Court.
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Chem1eeshe£ifueie,¢sacK, ente eg
the lignt. He keerd a noise KJ _ ___¢-Q __._.-...
in tne glass the size of the lead,, 6 I1-0- v --
nee? _ vwh _H_M
in a lesc pencil.
ff He called tne build
and in turn, called metropoli
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tan Police fficere. The Eeliog
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was lh feet Ebote the floor and the observation was made that
pessibly §g§egee_hed shot e_$=3 gen et_tXe'%lhd:w. Justice Iwas cot_present at tne time, ed he ohe wee injured. %_' "' I1
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and the Wesnington Field Office is taking no f1rtncr action.
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plaintiff's subject, Hugo L. Black, described as cross
references. More specifically, Hugo Black's name was indexed
in the "main" files of other individuals or organizations
because of his association, contact, or sometimes the mere
mention of his name.
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HUGO LAFAYETTE BLACK
nocussnw - 57
DATE - 5/6/36
CQMUNICATION _ Memo for Mr. Tolson from T. D. Quinn
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,;' possible to appear at thé¢5heriffs' & Peace Officers Conve::Ion
to be held in Montgomery, Alabama, on May 13, 14 and 15. He
stated that the people in Alabama wcre%§ost anxious to hear 1;e
4 Director and also to see him and wanted the Director to knc.
r the Senator would consider it a personal favor if he couio attend f
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I informed the Secretary that on account J? r.
Ho092er's present commitments it woulo be impossibie to ecce,.
this kind invitation and pointed oxt to him that in connect*;;
with certain major cases personally handle; by the Director is _
has teen necessary to cancel engagements made of low, stand .-. H
We st;ted he appreciated the situation and stated r;e{ the Hrrteu
did an excellent piece of work, particularly the Director, in
apprehending "Public Lnemy No. 1".
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DOCUMNT 53
DATE - 5/2/36
COMMUNICATION - Memo for the Director from T. D. Quinn
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MEMORANDUM FOR THE DIEECTUB.
The Secretary to Senetorylaok telephoned and592 stated that the Senator was hOping Mr. Hoover would be able to
accept the invitation extended to him to appear us a speaker
before théchiebama Peace Qffioeysmgssocietion during theirCcon:,I / <9 _yentiop_which_FoEId 5e held this monthmend that the officials
of the association had communicated with the Senator and solicited
his assistance in endesvoring to have the Director accept.
I told the Secretary that I would be only too
glad to convey his congratulations to Mr. Hoover upon his P¬tUPu
to the office, but that I doubted seriously whether he would be
able to accept the invitation to speak in view of certain
developments in major oases.
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DOCUMENT 59 r
DATE - 8/12/37
COMMUNICATION Memo from Office of the Director
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DATE - 9/18/37
COMMUNICATION - Memo from E. A. Tamm
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JOHN EDGAR HOOVER
F1'4lR£C.TOR
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DATE - 9/17/31 92
comunxcawzou - Memo from E. A. Tamm
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JOHN EDGA R HOOVER
' DIRECTOR
Eehzral Eu:-can nf iuucatigutiun
lilniteh States Evpa: uent of Zluntirc
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anther of sturies abeut Senatcr l1acks bein@ e member of L1.
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/Ku Klux Klan, is to be calle t- the Bureau fur Q confereLce with
reference tf the al1r;ed situation in which his Principe} source
of infwrmaticn was ug iuf,r ant in Llgta a who had been killed
by a railway train wider Lgstericus circumst&c0° and in_tf
t as ta whether the Bureau G16 ask Spregal tn cwme to Wash: *'rcd
* for s cwnference hn if the Bureau did conduct :n3 investi»;';¢nJin cnnecticn with 3yT@Eal'S articles of possible violence_»
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DATE - 9/16/37
CQMMUNICATIQN _ Memo from Mr. Tolson
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that the Washington Evening Star and the Washington Times were/9|..
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contemplating publishing certain92crit1c1sms of the Attorney General C
'_ connection with the?Klu Klux Klan before
Supreme Court. Finkel stated that this
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I the Star who was suoposod to have Jivend W he was appointed to the
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name of the employee on
the information out, but1 and the Director fo failure to ascertain former Senator Black's 9
information had come to ;
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DATE - 9/23/37
COMUNICATIQN - Memo from E. A. Tamm to the Director
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JOHN EDGAR HOOVER
' DIRECTOR
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f Dreéégierson called at my office on September 17, 1937,
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92_J story to the effect that the Bureau had asked one-'-Spiegal, a repre-
sentative of theJPittsburgh Post Gazette, to proceed to Washington.
since Spiegal was the newspaper mannho originated the stories about ,
Senator Black being a member of theKu Klux Klan. According to
Pierson, Spiegal claims his key witness in the Black story has been
killed by a train under very msterious circumstances in Alabama.
__// I subsequently discussed this situation with you and then
»/ by telephone contacted Mr. Pierson at his home, informing him that
- the Director desired to inform Pierson personally and confidentially
that Spiegal had not been called to the Bureau; that the Bureau
had never heard of the man and was not, as a matter of fact, conduct-
ing any investigation into the alleged membership of Senator Black
in the Ku Klux Klan. _
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DOCUMENT - 64
DATE - 9/24/37 _
COMMUNICATION Letter from Director to Boake Carter
and a transcript of Carter's Broadcast
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Mr. B0ake}Carter,
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'. .Dear Boake: .. ' I
I do want to take this opportunity ,
to express to you my profound appreciation of
your staunch defense of the 531 in connection f
with the Justice Black situation, as related
during your broadcast last nednesday evening.
g I was in California listening to you, and you/// can't imagine the feeling of warmth that swept "92
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/; sir, expressing éour confidence in the FBI just '¢~» es the unfoundedrpriticism referred to is ep
- peering in the press. I am indeed grateful tc
you for taking this opportunity to squelch some
of that criticism.,-
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very best regards, I am '._
' H Sincerely, ~
SPECIAL DELIVERY
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'q§ ell, in the lest week or eo there bee been e growing editorial
criticism directed against the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and it in
baled in general upon these lines: That the FBI nuet be n pretty your cut-fit if, after investigating the record of Er. Justice Hugg!Block, they gave
him 1 clean bill of health and than to have a nowepnpor man come along and
lake none very startling revelations about the not Associate Justice andhi! alleged connection lith thjfkl. That criticism has been based on ebaolute
an lcnnwlndme of fnetn Thin I a made clnnr tndnv bv Lttornev Genarnl ¢_1u!n::d_.!ng_5 ..... ..._._-....-_..,,,.. _ _ _ _ _ _..e .__.__ _-W __-__ .-__.w, --__,, -,, -_ - _ _ ____, WHY---_
in Illhington. oil attention Isa drewn_to these criticisms of the Department
of Justice, but he flatly declared today that the Dopartnont of Justice had
made no investigation of Hugo Black either before or after Hr. Roosevelt named
the ex-Senator to the High Court, end this editor is in a position to know be
yohd the question of a doubt from other and equally reliable sources direct
that whatever may have occurred within the Attorney Generul'o Office, at least
no request was ever made to the Federal Bureau of Invoetigction to examine
Hr. Black's qualifications, and no those clone to the picture say, the FBI
cannot be blamed for any negligence rogarding Hr. Bleak, for it not only didn't
inveetigote him, but weent naked to investigate him. ithatever the politics
followed, the FBI is ueuolly'requo8ted by the lttorney Ge oral to make e ro-
port on the candidntoe for Federal Judgeships, U, S. District Attorneys, U. C.
Iershelc, and other similer officea coming under tno Department of J-::ice's
Jurisdiction. This has been e standing practice for many years be: it *on1d
be thr height of inpertinonce for the Depgrtzent of Justice to blenely in~
Yoltigato Supreme Court Junticon, for thé BuprgQg_§onrt is an indejendcnt body
Iith no connection whatsoever Iith the Department of Justice. he Zr. Cutminj
pointed out, no inveetigetione were ever node of any of the present newborn
of the Supreme Court with the exception of the Associate Jueticeitone and
oly then when he was e cnndidcte for the Attorney Qeneralnhip nnc not for the
Court. Thus, in the light of the facts, it becomes clear that to blaze the !hI
for not presenting the facts of Hr. Black's purported Klan connections is un-
Ierrented end liodirected for the reason that the FBI tea not oven T¬3U8£!Bd
to make any such investigation in the first place.
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"During the peat week or so there hes been a brewing editorial
criticism against tne Federal Bureau or InVestignt10n, and it is basedin general upon these lines: That the FBI muet be a gfotty poor outfit
if after investigating the record of mr, Justice Hugolilaok eno ;ive
_ him e clean bill of health and then nnVin£ a newspaper man cone along
and-neke some very Startling revelations about the new Associate Justice _
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' nigh court, and this editor 1_ in n position to know bcyono the ,nestion
of a doubt from other equell§*re1icble sourcco tonight thnt wnetevcr ,
_-nay have occurred within tne Attorney General: Office, at least no
. request_nns ever nnic to the Federal Bureau of_InVo=tig&tion to examine
Br. Black: qualifications, and as those oloee to the picture soy, the
FE! cannot be binned of any nnttorn regarding !r= Blec:= Ior it net
only did not investigate him, but wesn't asked to inveetigete bin.
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coming within the Department of Justice. It woulo be the height of
inpertinence for the Department or Justice to blandly investigate Supreme
Court Justices, for the Supreme Coort is en independent body with no
connection whatsoever with the Department of Justice. As Mr. Cnmxinge
pointed out, no investigations were ever made or any of the prczont
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Motion for leave to le FL petition for an
order requiring Mr. Justice Black to
show came why he should be per-
mitted to serve as an Associate Justice
J of this Court.Ex parie Albe-._Levitt,
Petitioner.
{October 11, 1937.]
PER Ci:m.92.92z.
The §_'!'tll1li ]h' of this iiioiion are that the nppoiiiiineiit of Mi".
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disclose no interest upon the part oi the petitioner t-tlier than that
oi ii citizen and a 1I1t'l.'l11Ji'I' riE the 11:11 of this Court. That is iii-/I]ii.-tiee Black by tlic Presitieiit and the eoiimizitioii tiiereoi" by the
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Ex parte P. IL Kelley, Motion for hearing on the title of Mr.
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DATE 10/4/37
COMUNICATION - Memo from L. B. Nichols to Mr. Tolson
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JOHN EDC»,.~92R HOOVEH
DIRECTOR
ilhzhnral Tinreau of iinunntigation
lniteh étatrs Bop.-tvstment ni Bustier
LBN/ARK mashington, E. E. u
October 1,, 1937. I/» 5'
'~:I1 *, __15omt_ro;a I-.-IR. retool; / i VERQRA
It is believed that you and the Director would be /<//J//*
interested in the following incident depicting the ethics of theft/ff press is getting news.
I' On the afternoon of September 29, 1937, while procecdlng L92
om Mt. Vernon to Quantico, Virginia, with several photographers vxahd representatives of the press, Er. Roger92Hewthorne of the '
I Associated Press noticed an AP Photographer at the point v.-here the '"__ 92 reed from Mt. Vernon intersects with the Richmond Highway. IL view 1
,v of the fact that Hr. Hawthorne had instructed a photographer to
accompany him to Quantico, he got out of the car and Went buck to
talk with him, and upon his return to the car advised thet the
local editor of the AP, a photographer, and other individuals had
sec~ ed a Virginie State Trooper to stop the car of Mr. Justice_ Hug:YBleck which was supposed to pass there st any tine en route
92 from Norfolk to Washington. It was platned to have the officer
stop Mr. Justice Black's car, whereupon the editor would attempt
to interview him and the photographer would photogrspb him.--..
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he would do if he were in Mr. Justice Black's place, thereupon
, Hr. Hawthorne replied that he would stamp on the ecceleretor
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the Black Elan articles T re based ahich nerc syndicated 4 1
thro -mm Pittb; ->1 t-:;.'=u- if itrk ,/ whic:b:ypc§red 1: t;&' c?sYor: Eves; 1 Egrnnl-A:e:?csne:nderK7 date of September 29, 1937. Zux D Eteucr, counsel for Paul I
Block, demands Robert 5. Allen to re rect this article.
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- - Dibble stated that Allen had himself out on a limb, nd
"' would probably get hic Shins skinned before this was over.
E This is being submittec as u matt r of interest
'to the Director and yourself. $-_-1'
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Dear Boake:
I do want to take this opportunityto express to you Iy profound appreciation oiyour of-eunch defense oi the FBI in connection
with the Ju ti 'e co Black situation, as related 'during your broadcast 1ae't Ie:ineeday evening.I tea in California listening to you, "and youcan't imagine the feeling oi Iernth $118-t_Bicpt
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The following is an excerpt from the broadcast of Boake Garter,
September 22, 1957. 6:45 p.m.
Well, in the last week or so there has been a growing editorial
criticism directed against the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and it is-
based in general upon these lines= That the FBI must be a- retty poor out-fit if, after investigating the record of Mr. Justice Huggzglack, they gave
him a clean bill of health and then'to have a newspaper come along andmake some very startling revelatéggs about the new Associate Justice andhis alleged connection with thdk . That criticism has been based on absolutely
no knowledge of facts. This was made clear today by Attorney General Cummings
in Washington. His attention was drawn to these criticisms of the Department
of Justice, but he flatly declared today that the Department of Justice had
made no investigation of Hugo Black either before or after Mr. Roosevelt named
the ex-Senator to the High Court, and this editor is in a position to know be~
yond the question of a douht.from other and equally reliable sources direct
that whatever may have occurred within the Attorney General's Office, at least
no request was ever made to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to examine
Mr. Black's qualifications, and as those close to the picture say, the FBI
cannot be blamed for any negligence regarding Mr. Black, for it not only didn't
investigate him, but wasn't asked to investigate him. *Whatever the politics
followed, the FBI is usually requested by the Attorney General to make a re»
port on the candidates for Federal Judgeships,,U: S. District Attorneys, U. S.
Marshals, and other similar offices coming under the Department of Justice's
jurisdiction. This has been a standing practice for many years but it would
be the height oi impertinence for the Department oi Justice to blandly in-
vestigate Supreme Court Justices, for thé{Supreme Court is an independent body
with no connection whatsoever with the Department of Justice. As Mr. Cuirinfs
pointed cut, no investigations were ever made of any of the present setters
-of the Supreme Court with the exception of the associate JusticeT"tone andonly then when he was a candidate for the Attorney Generalship adg not for the
Court. Thus, in the light of the facts, it becomes clear that to blame the FBI
for not presenting the facts of Mr. Blacks purported Klan connections is un-
warranted and misdirected for the reason that the FBI has not even requested
to make any such investigation in the first place.
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criticismagainstthe'Federa1l¥ureau of fnvestigstion, d it is based~ 1%? = in;general upon these lines: The th oFBI must beta Br;2ty'poor outfit
if.n£ter investigating the record of Mp;_§g§tig§_Hngo?Blac§ and give
his a clean bill of health and then having o newspaper man come along
and make some very startling revelations about the new Associate Justice
and his alleged connection with the KKK. That criticism has been bnsed
upon absolutely no knowledge of facts. This was made clear today by
_92 Attorneygeneral Cummings in Washington..=His_attention was drawn to _
' these criticisms through the Department of Justice, but he made it clear
high-court, and this editor is in a position to gnow beyond the question
of a doubt from other equally reliable sources tonight that whatever
may have occurred within the Attorney General's Gffice, at least no
request was ever made to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to exanine
./Mr. §lack's qualifications, and as_those close to the picture say, the_
FBI cannot be blamed of any matters regarding er. Black.. For it not
4 only did not investigate_him,§but wasn't asked to investigate him..
i, The policy followed by the FBI isusually at_the request of the Attorney
Generels Office. The FBI investigates the applicants for Federal Judge-
ships, U. S. District Attorneys, U, 5. Marshals and other similar offices
Coming within the Department of Justice. It would be the height of
impertinence for the Department of Justice to blandly investigate Supreme
Court Justices, for the Supreme Court is an independent body with no
connection whatsoever with the Department of Justice. Ks Mr. Cummings
pointed out, no investigations were ever made of any of the present
members of the supreme court, with the exception of Associate Justice
otone, and only then when he was a candidate for the Attorney Gemaralship
and not for the Court. Thus, in the li;nt of the facts, it becomes clearthat to blame the FBI for not presenting the facts of Hr. Black's Klan Iconnections is unwarranted and misdirected, inasmucw as the FBI was not E ;even requested to make any such investigation in the first olace." I !f
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DATE - 6/11/46
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mm eis of the l. S. Supreme Court ay hurled Longress _ _ _ war crimes proseculior. He cable
ntn a feud lll92'r'I]l'Hlg' Justices Robert I I acksn "and Hugo L,
1-lack.
it_i'rii_.=.r:ii the ii_ 'i:<siiiiiit_v of 5 coiigiessioiial iiivestigation andll1|'_|l< l|llPIl-9292'El.-1hlllg' such as the staid old court never has ex-
;-=-rienreil since ll was founded in 1789. '
The iiniilfiratiiins conceivably could involve impeachment pro-f*"fi|rig.~' zigziirisi one or both of the brawling nielnhers of the
nation s liigln-st triliunal. And i could Stall the pending nomi-nation of Fred M. Vinson to be iief justice. I
Phe lend bclwecii Justice-.92 Jackzgoia . _and Blank had becn Fmtnldcrilig with K -Gongrosa dram stunned i- -,m,,mL.ia| ,._.mgr,%iO al mgmmme for .-iilulity that a Suprem_e_Gourt justicemm. than 5 year. An angry b|a.;L by 'ould shatter the traditional serenity
MI-_J_iu'-kson. queslioiiiiig his associa.tesioficlhl pniiqu ii not iii? honor, brvijiiii 'vorrrfnlly into lhe open. Wstigation into W Pnure facuona
Mil !0l92Il92ll-INT strife between New Dealers and con-
MI. Bl.llk reroivcd the m-W; with acrrzitives on the high bench along.
shiiiy !tl.l 'lll'E. Sn did member-.q or pi-951- with the pcronal vendetta between the .
di-iii-1 '.l"ruman '1 official family, two mcrribers. Mr. Black, acting chief
justice, heads the New Deal bloc. Mr»
_ Jackson often votes the conservative
_&_iw .__ line. l
5 -92 92 HERE'S Tlllij LINEUP
Charging that the private war
among the justices goes as far as lm-;
geneliing "the reputation of the eourti;
{or nonpartisan and unbiased decisionfl.
Mr. Jaclmon named the feud lineup
$5:
On Black's side: Associate Justices
Btanler P. Reed. William O. Douglas,
Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge.
On Jackson's side: A!-350Cl3t»8 Justice
Felix Frankfurter and former Justice
Owen J. Roberta.
WON'T DELAY
Home Uoiig:-essnirii expressed fears
that unless the matter is solved swiftly
3!!!! i-oni;i!r~l.i~!_v ll. I!!5'92._l,- lr-opiirdlze pub-
lic lnllh ln l.lu- rnnrl. swl. up in l.lir- Con-
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jun-l.-aprurh-url'. _
Chalrinnn Put Mi: !a|'rnn ll!, Nev}
of the Senate Jtldltllllrj Committee said
Mr. Jackson's charges naturuly willciary comniittecs.
?0R'!'Al.-l'0-POR'li92I- PAY
His complaint was based principal!
n the fact that Black participated ii
coui-l decision in 1945---'un-olving th
amed Jewell Ridge. Va.. coal compan
"portal lo portal" mine pay case.
Crempton Harris of Alabama.with public charges against a colleague. _The deep-seated difference betwccreacted vocally.
There were demands for an in-
son's outburst.
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#7-92'voiced any threaten to the President.
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MOWMR JACKSON g, I-I Icheduled this week on...-_-Cllillfii mould have Inch f . ""° ° 1"'m°'L-_W._ - /xe so . ,__ er» nwffii "-
q 92.. | | L1»___,92 __-- .- y F , ., V WASHING'IfON NEWS¢_, lL"%'§ ' .1 ,_, 1 ' , J ', Page .' .1Mi-. Jackson ielt that Mr. Black
should have disqualified hll'I92S¬|l92§i1'92CE
the United Mine Workers Union, suc-
cessful litigants in the case. was repre-
sented by Black], former law partner,
record straight in regard to his ovmi
feud with Mt. Black and po.rticularlyt
to denounce the charge that he hadf_' lil
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the iwo BSSDCll-B jiisi.i¬;ES was evident
at the time. But 1 recent column
by Doris Fleeson in The Washington
Star on President Truman's proh-
lem In filling the chlel jl15l.'iC65lllp was
the final straw that evoked Mr. Jack-
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quoting Mr. Truman to the elfect that
Bla¬lt says he will resign if I make
Jackson chic! justice and tel! the rea-
SOII5 why; Jackson sag: the same about
Mr. Jackson withheld comment until
Mr. Vinsona nomiiiatloii because, he
said. he didiit want to be put in the
position or pleading for the pmit. He
stresrred that his statement should in
no wag be considered an objection toI
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It was rather a "question of Judllnlent
as to sound judicial policy." he de-
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DECESION IN QUESTION
u Mr. Jackson recalled that when de-i
Ieatcd litigants in the coal ca.-to re-
quested a rehearing last year ld Bskrd
that Mr. Black he excluded [rum DRY
ticipation because oi his past relations
.1-lth the opposing attorney. the court
argllcci about the decision to be ren-
dered. ,- . i
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be denied and that there was no judi-~
clal power to disqiaalily a court mem-
bcr.
Mr. Jackson wanted the decision
iwriihiii so it would set Iorth clearly
tho fact" tlml altlio tho court was
tlliarlimous in denying 5 rehearing, it
i92-Ir. Blacks participation under tho
iirl1iiliwt:n1i~r;. He said Mr. Blacki
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not draw attrntinrl to his palticip'ation
|ornthr other ci|'curnstanccs.
Time may be those who think it
quite harniicss to encourage the em-iD|0.V|nPnI of a justice; former lawP"'i~lll'l's in artlur close casl-.-z by smoth-Hrinl the otrjcctioiis which ti]; bar
""_'k"" ii" |-|"»* l'rRrtlcr_" Mr. JilC|i-iOl'|
"til "Bill "1 I".v rirw um-l1 Ill attitude
Itlllti lmon bring tho Court hm, $5-ll"P"tP.'
His atatrmenl also indicated--by ret-
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Mr. Reed
Justice Block
l "1' ii hi h iiiliiji Congressional leader: believed that
ll Mr. Jackson had any intention of»
1] leaving the Court he would have sub-
imitted a resignation, llong with his ceedings agaonst a Supreme Court jus-Iormal statement. Former Senate ool-' ' . ' .'
lr-mines of Justice Black likcwisc| . ' . .
doubt:-d that hr would quit under llre.l '
His rsl.ni.i|.'= nmx-av-rd tn hinge prin- .
rip-ally on the gravity with which Coi92- . .
grew: vii-wa Mr. Jackson; charges. l ' i
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frucls cease to be l'I92_V.'il.rl'l0l.I$l_V and ir-
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result from the affairs, it would be
tliru cumbersome machinery provided
in the constitution. Impeachment pro-
hce must be initiated by the Home
and tried by the entire Senate
Onlv once has impeachment action
bi-vn tnkrn against a ml-mbrr of the
High Hourt That was in 180'; wlu-ii
Associate Justice Bamurl Chm.-e was
accused of miscondlwt in the trial o
persons charged with violating the St
dltlon law. He wu acquitted by th
Senate alter a trial that lasted lro
ov. 30, I004. to March 1. 1805.
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DOCUMENT 73
DATE - 5/22/36
COMMUNICATION - Memo for the Director from E. A. Tamm
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DOCUMENT 75
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your courtesy will be appreciated if you will advise mewhethe; an investigation was undertaken in the matter, and if vnot, full information as to the reason investigation wasnotmade in order that I may be enabled, to reply to DI. wright.
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Dear Sir:
Refer to copy of my letter to Senator Hugo. . Black of
February 25. I quote below senator 5lack's reply:
"Your letter or February 25th received. I have always favored some kind
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BISHOP, WILLIAM AVERY-Coniiimed
Ohio, where Bishop served as member of a
British air mission, that he wrote his first
book, lViJtgcd' Warfare 918!. He then
recruited in Canada and instructed in England
until the spring of 1918.
Back in France, with a price on his head,
Billy Bishop kept on ying his silver machine
with its easily-recognized blue snout into and
out of tight places. Once his squadron actually
lost eleven planes out of eighteen in one day.
In 192lay 1918 he formed his own squadron,
No. 85, picking the cieam of the pilots from
the English, the Canadian and the United
States Air Forces. But the next month the
General Staff decided he was too valuable to
run further risks, and he was given 12 days
in which to prepare to leave for London to
do administrative work and help with recruiting.
Up to that time Bishop had shot down the
startling total of 45 German planes. ln the
next twelve days he shot down twenty-ve
morea larger number than the entire RAF
had downed during the rst month of the
Vtlar-ve of them in two hours on his last
day as a pilot! Vt/hen Billy Bishop nally
signed on as a rst grade stat! oicer lieu-
tenant colonel! on the Canadian General Staff
his record showed 72 enemy aircraft de_=tro_92'ed,
170 battles fought in mid-air, 10 well~eztrner.l
decorations. The King suggested this time:
There are no more letters we can put after
your name, so 1 suggest we put some before it,
and call you 'Archbishop."'
in the period between the two V92-'ars Bishop
mingled business and flying. First he went to
the United States and traveled through the
country lecturing, but he soon returned to
England, where he lived for 10 years, "prom-
inent in nancial and polo circles." In 1922
this skilled airman, who during the 9292'ar had
once fallen 4,000 feet in a burning plane and
who had often limped back home in his plane
with scores of bullet holes in its fuselage,
came nearer to losing his life than he ever
had before. Injured in a civil ying accident,
he nearly lost his sight; the plastic surgeons
had to go to work on him; and, once restored
to health, he did not pilot a plane for 12 or
I3 years.
In 1931 Bishop came back to Canada to
become vice-president of the McColl-Fronte-
nac Oil Company, Limited, Montreal, one of
Canadas largest companies. His business
career has included successful operations in
investment banking, and he is a director of
the English Electric Company of Canada.!
By this time he had also attained the honorary
rank of group captain in the Royal Canadian
Air Force, and soon he was wanting to y
again. He asked a friend to lend him a ship.
As he tells it: In 13 years they'd made new
rules in my game-had made ying a science.
There was only one thing to do-I had to
learn Flying all over again." '
After a few lessons from an expert, Bishop
was as condent as_.evcr. In 1936 he was
promoted to the rank of Air Vice-Marshal,
in 1938 to Air Marshal--and in August 1938
he was made a member of the HonoraryAir Advisory Committee l'.u the Minister of
National Defense. He had previously written
that Canada's aviation policy was one of
"drifting," and had urged training an ex-
tensive air personnel and building machines
of the best quality. Now he was to take an
active part in carrying out his own advice.
After Canada joined Gfeltl. 1.-ritain in declaring
war against Germany, on September 8, 1939
Bishop was called up for active service with
the Royal Canadian Air Force, and not long
afterward he was given the oice of Director
of Air Force Recruiting.
Today Bishop is a short man with very
blue eyes and a closely cropped mustache"
whose formerly sandy hair has thinned out
and grizzled, 92-vhile his earlier sliinncss has
given place to some il']CI't.'3SE in girth. Quentin
Reynolds see sketch March issue! calls hin.
an intelligent, cultured gentleman, a boo
Ui£'Uil'f, an extraordinary host, one of the
keenest businessmen in Canada." His wife
collects china dogs; his own "collection" hangs
on his library walls, and includes the blue-
snoutcd propeller of 19154 days and the wing
tip of l92ichthofens I iill'.'. ln his library
might also be found another hook he has
written since that War with Rothesay Stuart-
92'92/ortley: The l_1_t'in_r,T .S_ ].'tt1d l9Z§'!. Among
his most treasured possessions is a book
presented to him by the Berlin .-Xcro Club
at a banquet in 1925, hen Bishop, as their
guest. was photograplied 92'.ith Goericig sit-
sketch Attgu:-t issue!. In it Got-ring and
others have inscribed .,-rectings t- a coni-
petitor from the other side."
Riding, golf, polo and tennis are Dill!
Bishop's sports. Of the 11:-Ll-Eli Canadian 't92'iI'llt'T
tloitigs this atnazing 1'|1ItTT says: "No. 1
can't skate. lt hurts my shins. As for Si- iin_t.;
sa!', 1 don't know yihcrc those fellows get
the Courage. The falls you take. 1 5l1i92'cr
every time I sec one of them go down. I'd
be scared stiff to try it!"
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BLACK, HUGO LA FAYETTE! Feb
27, 1886- Associate Justice of the United
States Supreme Court
Address: b. Supreme .Court Bldg, Washing-
ton, D. C; 11. Birmingham, Ala.
Hugo Black took his position as .'92S.-QLiI92tC
Justice of the United Ftates Supreme Court
in Attgtist 1937 after one of the most bitter
and vigorous discussions of all llrv, after an
orgy of vituperation. Today lawyers and.
laymen alike are praising his succinct, lawyer-
like and pointed opinions" on this court, the
clarity, power and perspicacity of his dis-
seats."
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HUGO HLACK
The man who holds one of the highest legal
positions in the land nt-vcr nished secondary
school, never t:o|nplttt-d an undergraduate course
at college. Hugo La Fayette Black was born
in Harlan, Clay County, Alabama and spent
the rst ve years of his life on a farm there,
the next fteen in the countys metropolis of
Ashland, where his father and mother, 92.-Villiam
La Fayette and Martha Ardellah Toland!
Black. ran a general store. Summers he
worked. winters he attended a "prirnitive'sort
of academy" called Ashland College. When
his older brother. trim 92v:ts a doctor, decided
that Hugo should become a doctor, too, he
fell in with his wishes enough to complete a
two-year rnerlical course in one year at the
1'-niversity oi Alabama. Then he decided to
become a la".-r;,'er, switched over to the Uni-
versit,v's law school and in 1906 received his
LL. B.
He went back to Ashland and opened a law
ofnce over a grocery store. Since the town's
population of S00 didn't allow for much legal
bttsincss, it was rather a relief to Black when
the grocery store burned down and gave him
an incentive for moving on to Lirmingliain.
In Birmingham business was better. Black
made untracetioiis with the trade-unions, repre-
senting the minersi union in its rst Alabama
strike and the cztrt»e~;tter5' union in an important
suit, and lmilt up a general practice as W-ell.
Then, in 1910, he received his rst judicial
experience. Elected a police court judge, for
IS months he spent his mornings in a hot
dingy courtroom disposing of defendants, mostly
Negro, "hauled in for shooting craps, loang,
ghting and connuhial incompatibility." His
next public position was that of solicitor for
Jecrson County, Alabama and lasted from
I9l5 to I917. ,-
Aitcr the War, during which Black scrvctl
as a captain in the 81st Field Artillery andas acljutant in the 19th Artillery Brigade,
he settled down to private law practice in
Birmingham and to home life with Josephine
Patterson Foster, whom he married in 1921.
Although Raymond Clapper has called him a
failure as a country lawyer, others have
vouched for his ability in cross examination
technique his was always "the soft question
which provokes the wrathful answer"!, for his
untann}' knowledge of the law's loopholes, for
his success. .
ln 1926 Black decided to campaign in the
primaries for the Senate seat of Oscar Under-
wood, who had announced his retirement. John
Batiklicarl, since elected to the Senate, and
three others decided to do the same thing.
Undiscouraged, Black climbed into his Model T
Ford and stumped the State, dressed in a
wrinkled suit, sleeping at the home of any
farmer who would put him up, speaking at
every crossroads store the right words to win
both K11 Klux Klan" and A F of L support.
This support won him the nomination and
eventually the election.
Black made news in his rst year in the
Senate just once: he was "among those present"
at one of Coolidges famous 9292'hite House
breakfasts. The rest of the time he studied
routine, made himself familiar with legislative
business and kept discreetly silent. When he
had thoroughly prepared himself he began to
battle to restore Muscle Shoals to public
operatiou-his rst Senate speech was on this-.
He went on to ght with Senator Norris of
Nebraska against the utility interests.
lt 9292':1Fn't Until Roosevelt was elected, how-
ever, that he came into his o-.~.n. During
Roosevelt's rst term Black voted for each
of the 24 major measures of the New Deal
program and consistently supported all labor
legislatinti. He ltin1.-elf presented a bill in
the Senate for a 30-hour week and got it
passed, although it never became law in its
original form. Instead it was incorporated
in part into the NR.-t, which Black, incidentally,
denounced, one cf the irv: men in the Senate
who had the acumen and vision to perceive
precisely what the XRA was and what it
would be."
From tlle 30-hour-weelt ght, Black threw
himself into the problem of merchant marine
subsidies. He had been working on this ever
Since 1928, when he had held up an appropri-
ation bill carrying Coolidge's salary in an
attempt to force into it an amendment to limit
the salaries of Shipping Board officials to
$10,000 a year. In 1930 he again investigated
the whole question of subsidies and by l933
was conducting a lull-edtzed investigation.
Sensatiomal headlines resulted. from his hear-
itigs. He wrung out testimony by convincing
tltose who take the stand that he already has
the facts but merely wislaes then; conrmed
for the record out of the mouths of the
witnesses."
As Raymond Clapper described it then,
arntetl with stacks of letters and documents,
.-Senator Black sits back easily in his chair,
puffs. slowly on his cigar, rolls his large Open
eyes quite innocently and with a wise smile
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BLACK, I-iUGOC'mi!iituad
nntlertal-;cs to refresh the memory of a squirm-
ing witness." The disclosures of the Black
committee were startling. Contributions from
taxes, it was proved, in great part found
their way into the pockets of proteers, stock
manipulators, political and powerful nancial
groups, who never flew a plane, who never
iuventetl an engine, who never improved an
:=.ir;92l:tne part. Huge 5I_tl
i£ii'35 paid by the
govcrnutent to huiltl up a nterrzhant marine have
been diverted from that channel and have been
largely spent in high salaries, extravagttnt ex-
pense acC0tnttS, liiglily paid lobbyists and huge
di92'itletuls."
After ahnost singlehanriedly saving tl1e Atl-
!11§i92t1'2itl Jl92 from tick-at" in the Utility Hold-
ing Company ght of 1935, Black went on to
stir up even larger hezttllines as hezul of the
Ficrtatc Lohhy 1t192'estig:.ttin,<.: Connnitlcc. This
work wasn't new to him, for the late Senator
arau-a_v of Arlt-ansas had asked him tu become
a. guest on his lfii.IlJ92' committee back in 192'!.
Black plunged in with entl1L92'%i3Sm; not long
alterwarti he 92vns ilccuscrl 01' violating the
Fourth Atnetttliiic-tit and !~everel,y tal-zen to task
by the District of i0lllltllJl3. Court of Appcztls.
He had orrieretl the Postal Telcgraplt and
92Nestern Union ontpanics to comb their tiles
for all wires which smacked oi high pressure.
lobbying methocls and later had stthpocnaeil
the complete telcgrttphic correspondence oi
more than 1,000 specied persons and groups.
92lore than 5,00h,li0O wires were piled tip, and
uith them the wrath oi the newspapers, those
being invc.-"tig.,:ttetl, the public and the Courts.YT]. 3'. . ' ' J.. .... 4. $1 :0-11 44... .s....-,..-ntaens l'CjUlltU92_'T has t0 Czi.tin. an .4 5ic-_~-
and malicious campaign oi misrcpresenttition.
During' Black's last year in Con;;ress he
drove the V92':tges and Hours Bill llll' !l.t[..§lt the
Senate at great risk to his own political neck,
for his SI1t'!tt.~OT.92l1iI! arottserl violent reactions
among Alabama etnploycrs who would hzue
made a determined eFfort to defeat him ii he
had run for a third term. Every wet-ktiay,
in ofhce hours from 10 to 2 and on Saturdays
from 10 to 1, he met his constituents. Between
sessions he rented a house in Birntinghain
and traveled around his own and neighboring
states on speakittg tours. But all this Prune
to an end on August I2, 1937 when Ircsidt-nt
Roosevelt nominated him for the position 01'
Associate justice of the Supreme out-t.
Senator Ashurst asked for the St-11ate's
unanimous consent. Senator _l0l1l'tS0n objected,
and a senatorial precedent to conrm the
nomination of any member to otiicc withtint
reference to committee was shattered. Oli-
jections ew. Emplmsis was placed on the
fact that he was .1 partisan litigant rnthcz"
titan a cahu, inipar'ti:tl weiglier of opposin;_-
arguments; nu his luck of ju'diti.'ll c.92perient"t.
Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, _lr., found him
insufticiently "tolerant, liberal and jtulirml in
his view of the religious faitlis and racial
equality of his fellow citizens"; Commonrtml
called the Presidc':n's choice "an uniortuurtte
impulse of the moment"; fellow Senators
brought up legal technicalities against his ap-
pointment. Only the liberals anti lihernl tn:tg_.=:t-
zines like The Nation, which once culled hint
t P r a passionately sincere humanist guided
throughout by his unclerstauding,cf the fun-
damental truth oi the new militant liberal-
isnt, applauded "the choice. Yet Black rc-
reivcd his commission and, unl<uo92rn to the
public, on Lllc same day took his oath as As-
sociate Justice. Then in -niletl for Europe.
Less than a month l-92'LC[' Ray 5-prigle, :1
reporter for the Pittsburgh Post-Ct1:ttl'e,
wrote at series of six articles for that paper
and the North American Xewspaper :92lliance
in wllieh he silo-92'c i tliut Black llfltl joined
the Ruhr-rt l:'.. Lee Klan 92'1.tmber One, llr
visible linipire, Kni;_-ltt- of the Kn Klux
Klan on Seritenzher ll, 1923 and resig11e<1 on
July 9, 19.33 on the eve of his campaign for
the Democrutic llflllllfllilitrll for United State»
Senator; that he had l!92il'll welcornt-ii hack
nnrl 111;_|,rlg ;1 life lil.LZT]iJL'-' on September 2, 1926
anti g.-,i92'en :1 f_;t1lll "t_'r:u:t| passtiort." The out-
cry 9292-as alnu:-l una|'.ii.<iu-. Iilacl-: harl law
trayetl l92'uu>~t'92't'li, it 9292H92 said; the 9292-hnlr
wzts n rlcplorahle ¬_]Il'92-> lLL witliotit |irt-teilt'-in
or parallel tn the in:-tt..-5 oi this Rt-]it1li'lit" ;
and Hugh _l llll'|3~l#1"l it'929292'tii "92-'92'l:nt alillcrcnce
docs it ntzike ii ll1J_L!» lilztck is a nniturineil
Kluxer? _ _ It tins plain from his rcct»..t
that he i-'- It horn witclt lntrncr-n;trru92.92'_ preju-
tlicecl and cln-s etm.~.w<i:t-'." lilac}: lint! l:i~
tlt"lc1t1lci'-. it-u9292c92'92_'t'. '.ll.c .92'i':t Rt,t"tth|'it' c92=n: _ . -plainecl lnutk s joinir;_~ oi the l92l;tn as t: 92I
|;r1-or 0[ _92' :;tr5; |!;trl , :.ti.i1*.ptJ1'l;tt1t if-92lEl_92'[ iliitt
Lerner cztlle-"l it -.intpl5 :1 1'-it-cc of pnlttiimi
hel:a92'ior," in-ce~-ziry for his election, it...t
state-l t"irntl_92: "Hn;_;o iiincl-1 l-1 nu Klan-emnit.
1.7,92'er!'tl1i11jJ tiirtt lie l..t- .-lOUfl lur in ills ii
f92'¬&i'~ in the .~tR=:tte itiiin counter in "trim
the Klztlt lt;1~ stouri for.
lilZl92_i92' ltinst-if sail nt.tl1in§..-; t'ruan abroad
and l92'otist-vt-it tuhl the 1»rt*.-is: "l l~;r:n9292' it'll
wltut l ltavt: rczul in tltt jittperr-." lilnvli It'-
tttrnetl to cxplain l1l:~ ..ct§nns in :1 radio st-eeeli
It l!e;_~'an 92-Jith ;t tit:-t'i'!tlI92-t on rt-li;.-inns liht-1:!
and CO1-ltlltitl-lf I tliti ir-in the Klan. l lZll"t
1'E5ri;.;ncd, l 'ae92'cr 1"t_lUli.t;tl. . . l have new-1'
considered and do not ltr-9292' COt'1:~itlUt' the u::-
solicited card given to me shortly alter :7.!
nomination to the .*'-=-" ate as :t tnembersltip
of rtnv lcintl |t| the lit. l§lnx l§l.tt1. I never
used it. i tiitl not c"92"92il Rec]; it."
Black took his sent on the Suprcnte 1:11.
his lit:-l o:'I'.ci.il ac: in hear two -eparate hut
Silniltil -.~t.ition- 92t'lt:cl" challcn,":c:i his ti_._~l.t
to the titiicc. lt was expected that from then
on Blztelt wonlcl go sl092rl_92', give hirnsclf a
chztnre to nit-liow. Ht didn't. .92ltl.ott__i:lt the
cases assifqttcti to him in his rst year on the
Court were small in nninlier and na1'ro9292' in
issue, he rnantigetl to ll-Giltilli.-ill lllt31.- ll Rn
a, ltitnl, lu~t_92' anti lone <li<se:1ter. in less tl.:n.. _ , 4 _
' cit tit-.-etit-. 'I'l:i~ 9292';t:- l.;t|lt'tl l9292 lin.
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the lute l';ml Y. .'921t92lL'1':~Ott as tc'92'e{tlint.§ an
attitude that may well gtiide the Court utLL_
oi the t.teta|il|!'sic:tl 9292'il92lcrne.~is into 9292ltit'l:_ it
has 9292'3l'1ticfl.92l.
hlarqui-. iltilcls, l| .929292'92t,'t, Sttiietl in tn;t;.'_:i
zine articles that lil:92el.'.~. tlissents were notnhle
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nieal iricoinpetence and went on liurther to
say that Black's legal training and experience
had been revealed as painfully unequal to his
position on the nation's highest tribunal. His
opinions, he stated, often had to be rephrased
by colleagues to eonfortn to Court standards.
He himself hail been unable to carry his
share of routine work; his presence had been
an acute discomfort and embarrassment to
the other justices. R1i_tlTt01l l Clapper collab-
orated this in his newspaper coiinnn, and the
Daily News went so far as to say that Sti-
preme Court t'i'| tItl]tr;; hail hiteheil up their
judicial robes and in ilienit-it fashion were
in the process of putting the Elite on their
colleague." Denials then flooded the pages
of itewspapets, niai';'azines, law |'it~riodiCals.
Walton HHllllll0lt, professor of law at Yale,
said Black had courage almost to the point
of aurlacity, praised his einincntly lawyer-
like opinions" and prophesied that Black
ironlcl be an outstanding gure in the his-
tory of the court," for he brings a breath
of fresh air into a rather innstv courtroom."
Harold C. Hai."i;.;'l92iirst of 192orth9292estern Uni-
92-ersit_92' supported Hamilton, insisting witli hun
that the dontin:int distinction lictti-ecu Black
and his fellow jurists was his insistence upon
reality."
The coritrorer-'jv died o'ois"ii in the course
of time, even though in IQ-ll Justice Blacl;
is still 3 frequent clissenter. Foinc of his
decisions have been notable: in February
lQ4'[l lit rlt'li92'creii :1 decision, freeing four
I{cgr<=i:>- irlsti untlcr torture hail confessed to
criiries, which was Citiirtl far and 89292'3} the
most tlirect, sweepiiig and brilliantly written
application of the 14th Aineuthnent to lut-
man rights that has come from our higliest
'ourt"; for this anrl for another denouncing
the exclusion of Negroes from trial jury
panels Iila<l<'s name was aihled to the Honor
Roll of Race l92'I:l-3.tions by the Schnrnburg
Collection of Xegro Literature in the New
York I-tihlic library in 1041. Later, in April
I941, he voted that Negroes hail a right to
receive equal train atcommotlations with
whites.
In Feliriinry I9-ll lilack hzttl the triumph
oi D2lTllti]'1 tllllLI in ti Sll[1I 'l1l onrt decision
certifying the constitutionality of the child
labor pl-t'l92'lSiUl'l_92 of the 9292'It;.;e~= and Hours
Law which he had lielped to get passed. In
that Same month he 92'igomusl_92 protested a
Felix Frankfurter see sketch _Iunc issue!
decision upholding the right of state courts
to issue injunctions against picketing set in
a background of violence." Fiontewhat re-
moved from these eases was his opinion in
March I9-ll Ot1tl8.9292i11;,_' agr emcnts by which
TI't{lttt1l2tCtLlTCI'.~ of hats and dresses sought to
eliminate style "piracy" by registering new
creations and penalizing anyone copying the
designs.
There are many totiziy who believe that
Black is a "legislator :1nit!ng jntlgcs"; many
who now agree with 92'92"aIton Harniltorfs sunt-
ming up of his decisions: "There is no verbal
clisplay of priesterait, no strutting of thehijzher pyrotechnics, no triumphant victor!"
over ditliculties of the jurist's own creation.
In_stea.Cl a_ recitation of the facts, :1 sharp def-
inition of the issue, an argument that turns
not to right or left but tnarches straight to
its goal;inrI the trick is done. All the cases
are disposed of deftly, sirnply, certainly, in
accordance with justice and common sense."
Blaclc, who was once a. great joiner, former
Grand Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias
of Altsliaina and member to his later sorrow!
of almost every or:-tzttiization that asked him
to join, tli>esn't go out much now except on
family jannts with ;92Irs. Black and their three
Cliiltlrctt or to spend an occasirmnl evening
with a fellow justice or an Athninistration
friend. He t.lif-lil {3:- games and drinking artl
is reported to be happiest when reading works
on history and CCUIll0IlllCr> at hornc.
Rr'fr'renre.r
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Lerner, '.92I. Ideas .-92re 92.92'eapon> 13254-ob
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9292'l1<>'s 9292ho in ,92inc-rica
9292'hti'~; 9292'ho in fioverntnunt
9292hi>'s 92"Cl1o in la2l.92'92'
Witt-'s '92"-"ho in the 192'ation'.~ Capital
IBOLLES, STEPHEN luilsl _linn- 25, 1872
_luly 3, 19-ll Repul-llt.'tn ltcprest-ntzttivc ii:
Ciiitgress from 9292'iseonsin; foe of .92'cw Ilenl
and the La Follcttcs; veteran t'te9292'spaf92er ecli-
tor who had been a journalist since I390.
I-trftrriz.i"_t
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IBOWERS, CLAUDE G ERNADE! b0n-
Erz} NIH, Zil, lii7li ?l- United §I.'itcs :92m-
bassador to Thile; hi.-"torian
Adrl'rt',r.r: Department of State, 9292'a.~l1i:t,:,'ton,
D. C.
In the fall of I939, when :l.f{I.1{_lL Q g_i _9292_.92'[[':.
sailed for Chile to become [_'nitccl States .-92m-
bassador there, it was with the hope that he
would be able further to contribute toward
the mutual tindcrstanding and grouing feel-
ing of our irientlsliip not only with liile
but all Stltllll .»921neric;tn reptililics." A|nba~.-
satlor Bowers is far from being.-, the usual
career tlipluniat. Until I933, win-n he was
appointed Ambassador lo the Spatii.-iii Re-
public, lie hail been known as a "newspap._-i--
man, editorial writer, historian and Spec- I1
maker." An authority on jefierson and on
j:ick.=nn, he has also been called the greatest
living practitioner of what for want of a
i 9292
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HUGO LAFAYETTE BLACK
DOCUMNT 78
DATE - 9/16/37
COMUNICATION - Memo for Mr. Tolson
TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES PERTAINING TO REQUEST - 1
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Date Segtenber l§, 1957
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Former 5pecia1 Agent Richard Finkel called me thi
afternoon and stated th th s
a he had been advised by a friend of -A his that théowashington Evening Star '
1 _ W 'wZ3.
_ _ d the Washington Times 'ere contemplating publishin r nrn H 1 - torney
or for failure to ascertain former Senator
1' Black's connection with the Klu Klux Kl b
* to th 18 "kL an efore he was appointedI e. upreme Court. fin 1 st t da'e that this information h d TV
n|_' come to him confidentiall H- a _
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out, but said he would ascertain it if possible and let me know.1 f I thanked Finkel for the information.Il
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DOCUMNT - 79
DATE - 10/l/36 9/26/36 9/21/36
COMMUNICATION Director's letter to Senator Black:
Senator Black's letter to Director;
Letter from Duncan to Hoover
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Washington, D. G. _
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Enclcsed you will please find copy of lrttcr d-ted Sent:
3 .21, 1936 addressed to vou by Dr. L.IiNIMnczn PrPsidant of on: * - 2C!Al»b>mr P01'technic Institute Auburn, A1ab¬m&. whicn is =e1f-_ __ - 7 I " eip anatorgt-_ """-"'-"""' """"" "'°' M -w-:-n#m-.-.!.l'l ..J..-..
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in ex3615i3¬ 8 ¢0T@i&1 inVitntiOn to address the senior clasr at
Auburn at their rnnual dinner.
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- Bonorabla J. E§gar Hoovor
ilepartaent of -Justice ; _. -Ioahington, D. C. = '
Dear Sir!
The senior class at the Alabama Polytechnic
Institute now totals 425 who are cxoected to graduate
next ay. We would like for them to know, before
graduation, more about the enormous crime problem as it '
presents itscif to iho people of this nation. Wk believe
that it is a problem which shou1F be of great concern no
all college nan and women and, of course, to every good
citizen.
With this in View we are writing to invie ;;1 to L379
to Auburn this fall and adres our senior class at their annual
dinner, The date can be arranged to meet your convenience.
we prefer, however, to make it any Tuesday, Wednesday, or
Thursday evening botwean ctober 1% and ovonbcr 6.
It you coma to Auburn for this occasion we expect
to arrange with the peace officers wf Alabama for than to
meet you in Birmingham the next day, provided you would be
willing to moat with thix group also-
Since crime scams
g0vcrnment federal, stato,to grow in the face of all chat
and loccl is doing no baliave
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. to it. We arc pleased to cooperate with you and your ¢:sociw;cs
= in an educational way.
Lookinj fornari to h:v1ng you in Auburn, I an
Sincerely yours
L. H. Duncan
Prosidont
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DOCUMNT 80
COMUNICATION - Memo for Mr. Tolson
TOTAL NUMBER OF PAGES PERTAINING TO REQUEST ~ 1
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BEWRPQDUB E93 EL '¥9_L59_N
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afternoon and stated that he had been advised by a friend of
his that the Washington Evening Star and thé*Washington Times~_§' were oontenplating publishing_certaincriticisms of the Attorney_ General and the Director fo failure to ascertain former SenatorBlack's connection with the7Klu Klux Klan before he was appointed_ , $&92 to the Supreme Court. Finkel stated that this information had
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DOCUMENT B1
DATE - 10/6/47
COMMUNICATION - "Washington News" newsclipping
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hrpretations oi civil liberties a.-
-Ired by the Con.=tilutinn's Bill o[
Lights. The Court must rule on
-Ito]-ts of rat-ial minmiiies tn mer-
lnrow private h0rDP'/.ur|ing agree-
menls; systematic exclusion of Ne-
uroes from sta_te juries; the line be
I.-reen freedom of the press and
lihr!]|'!l_:_=: comment; and the teaching
--l religion in puhlir sr-lionls.
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iustlees will meet daily in private
-onterences to consider the baeklu
it eases that has piled up clurln
no three-and-a-half-month vacatioi_ __* JUSTICE BLAC
Jus_t;i_ge B|nek'i!_Iormerner has filed arrniijieal in
bsma ease'"i_il i_rii_norJu.i;tice_ J in c_k s 0 n
nouneed Mr. Black
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lawyer, Crainjiton Harris, arguedelore thehigh bl-n :|l. Mr. .i3_Fu-
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ver repeated he would make hi
remarks at that time l_ook" |u$¢
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Things E!/hich S ha pedppthe ustiees
By Drew Pearson
IF YOU STUDY the li92'es of the nine men
of the Supreme Court, you can pretty well
understand how and why they feel strongly
about civil rights and school integration.
Most of them were horn to hardship. reared
in an atmosphere where convictions were
rm. Here are their backgrounds: _
Chief Justice Ea'!"I"1'92'arrcn, of Norwegian
descent, was the son of a locomotive engi-
neer in Bakerseld. ."alif.. and rst worked
as a rounrlhouse calllioy. bicycling messages
to railroad crews notifying them when they
were to go on duty. Waircns father was
murdered when he was a child, and he
worked intensively to put himself through
school and support his mother.
He became a crusading district attorney,
cleaned up crime on the Oakland waterfrnrt,
was elected Governor of California. As such
he appointed a Nertro classmate at the Uni-
versity of California, Walter Gordon, to he
head of the State Parole Board; cracked
down on the exclusion o[ Mexicans from a
municipal park in San Bernadine; defended
the professors of the state universities in
their refusal to take loyalty oaths regarding
past political ailiations.
He antagonized Californiadoctors by urg-
ing what they called so:-ializeri medicine,"
insisted on greeting President. Truman when
he entered California in the 1952 presidential
campaign despite the frowns of Eisenhower
backers-and chalked up a. record as the
most courageous Governor California ever
had.
Justice Ht'i}92'r~Blacl4 is an Alabama lawyer
whose first case involved the return of a sow
which had strayed to a neighbor's farm and
produced a litter. From a starvation law prac-
tice he became the most prosperous lawyer
in Birmingham, gave up that practice to run
tor the Senate. When elected. he disbanded
hi! III? office-~unlike many other Senators-
lnl-tI1'H"his wife she would hava_t.a-seduce
her income from $60,000 t.o $10,000 a year.
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167 iii 3 -ln the Senate, Black became the indefat.i~
m0ter of Roosevelt's N'¬W D'F.'B1
legislation. When appointed to the Court,
the press put him through a baptism of re
over his membership in the Ku Klux Klan;
which he had joined as a young candidate
for public office. That bath of abuse has
helped make Black impervious to current
criticism and his one-time membership in
the Klan may well have inuenced his ring-
ing stands for the Negro, Catholics and Jews
and against the intolcrances of the Klan.
Justice Felix"'*Frankfurter was born in
Austria, brought to the United States as a
baby and became ll;1r92'a1"d5 most noted law
professor. l-le led the crusade t.o save Sacco
and Vanzetti when they weie accused of the
Braintrce, Mass., murder; and won the repu-
tation of 1D :0mm[I"|dil'1$1 more men t.o public
office under Roosevelt's New Deal lhan am-
one else in the Nation. Some of them, no-
tably Henry L. Stimson and Dean Acheson,
inuenced history as members of the
Cabinet.
On the court, Franl-:[urter has wave-"ed
from his onetime titleralism, has been criti-
cized for ducking decisions on constitutional
minds. Now the oldest member of eaim-L in years. he is more susceptible o
plhlic opinion than some of his colleagu s.Mklustice William f}?-Douglas was born IEnnesota, reared in Washington State a
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E1 P Y .lstltlliill and the laws enacted un-;der it but is at war with our basic
concepts or a democratic society,
and s. representative government.
i No-Bias no "mu smeuriu:
"We must consider this record in
the light of these important prin-cip1es.~ The tact that the written?
words of s"State's laws hold out s
promise that no such discrimina-
ition will be practiced is not enough.The Fourteenth Amendment re-quires that equal pro ection to allmug be gti;'enrnot merelty proniised. i" - ere e exaestauorysc eme-
ls not iri itself unfair; it is capable
aoif being carried out with no racial
-discrimination whatsoever. But by
plan. it is equally capable of being
appliedin such a manner as prac-
tically to prescribe eny group
thought by the law's administrators,to oi: undesirable. And from the
been dentin. '..qwngy, Black repeated testimony. to show- . - *'!'» _- - . -. ,my lied to exclude Netl'0_ss_?1t"ws.s, iilii i"1¢¢l¢"- ' it "' csps._bls, _hs ei_serted,J.hstti-us the Edgar smith case. Justice
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.f@ibst " thsF_Iourteenth;:*'.itmsnd~
wet premiums." n_s_ stated. -fa re-
Fili-qliilorlrntnatiqn in the selection
obpmd juriesij Where jury com-
rr-legcnere limit-thee: '2.-cm '.-rhcrn
I d .iurlssf.srs selected ;to their
nsl'scous._.intsn=ss, discrimina-ilesn ariseyrom commissionersw 'lr.now'ne_.";.Neiroes as well u_
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discussed, hut. they continued, there
was no Lrhitrary discrimination.
The Black decision reversed the
Texas Court of Criminal Apeala.
which had alitrmed. the conviction
in the trial court. Both oi the
Texas courts held that the evidence
railed to support the charge oi ra-
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By The aieoeiited Press. '
WASHINGTON. Nov- 2-5~lhe Su-
preme Court refused today to re-
view a Georgia Supreme Court deci-
sion which State officials asserted
would -seriously endanger" the
administration of unemployment-
cornpeneation programs or ti'-ii:-ty=three States. '"
The decision barred. the State
from lumping concerns under the
same ownership into A single unii
to determine whether there Wort
enough employee to warren. the
collection of iiieiiments under in:
unemployment compensation -atati
Lite. -
A 193'! Georgie law nermitteri aseesssments against such corfhrni
ii. together, they employed eight Oi
more perso;2.e._ __ . _
._ H Texns '11! Release Bniith
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Negroes from among the thousands _,
shown by the undisputed evidencei~°n- N°$1°°'- 31° lh- _°°hssess the legal qualifications
tut-ed more than 20 per cent or_the'ror Jury service. Nor could chancecounty population and __ almost-. 101 and accident have been resinsibie
per cent of the poll-tar psysnsf A
minimum er 8,000 to 6,000, he added.
fill qualiticetionsnton grand-{juryservice. § I ' " " in Ti" ":31?
The, court clerk," said-3 Justice
Black; ' tsstiiled, however, that in
19d1~&i= inciuuiveynnly {Ive oi the
884 [rend Jurors in that periodtor the combination or rcum
stances under which a I-leg:-ee
name, when listed at all. almost in-
variably appeared s-I No. 16, and
under which. No. 16 was never
called for service unless it proved
impossible to obtain the required
jurors tron: the first titteen names
-on the list." ' '
ii The convicted man pleaded thatoi criminal assault was set asii
today by the United States Sunre
Court. will he freed from the M
County jail in s. few days. He .
been held since Aug. 1, 1938, s _now 20 years old. ' -
Court attaches here said tlcause the statute 0! limitetgjg
W011 NBIPOOII 0!-513 Psrlhl Bllleilthe "systematic" exclusion oi Ne-i
for 31-and iuryduty, only eighteenfrees denied him the right o! equalthe charge ismone year iii? Smith cannot be reinditggnngitherefore Wgl be freed -th tro the _1 e _ inCourt arrives. ti. .5 .
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DENVER, COLOADO
MAILEQ, T0 SUPREME councr JUSTIQES
EARL/WARREN, WILLIA 0RVILLE"'DOUGLASAND HUGO LAFAYETTE%£ACK
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UNKNOWN SUBJECT;
gosssr P. CUNNINGHAM - COMLAINANI
By memorandum dated March 25, 1969, the United
States Secret Service, Washington, D.C., advised that the
United States Supreme Court, Washington, D.C., had furnished
to them the following possible threatening letter which
was postmarked March 12, 1969, at Denver, Colorado, addressed
"Communists on Supreme Court, care of Warren - Douglas -
Black, Washington, D.C." and read as follows:
"Dear Fellow Commrade, Was glad to see
where you stood up for your "Comrade"
dick gregory, and overturned his conviction!
At least you communists stick & stink
together! Will be grateful when God sees
fit to remove your kind foom this earth,
and I hope it wont be long. Its just to
bad an Oswald or James Ray ect cannot run
wild among you filthy cruds!
/s/ A Non Communist Taxpayer
praying for your Assinations
On April 8, 1969, the facts of this investigation
were presented to Assistant Unted States Attoniey Milton
C, Branch, Denver, Colorado, who advised after reading the
letter in question that he was declining prosecution as
the letter fails to contain a threat coming within the
purview of the Federal Extortion Statute.
On April 8, 1969, Detective Richard Sherwitz
Denver, Colorado, Police Department, Detective Bureau,
was advised regarding the letter and the opinion of the
Assistant United States Attorney. He stated this matter
is being made an item of record with the police department.
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Operations Officer, 114th M Group, Denver, Colorado, was
advised regarding the letter involved and of the Assistant
Unied States Attorney's opinion at Denver, Colorado.
THIS DOCUMENT CONTAINS NEITHER RECOMMENDATIONS
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starchy nI'S, he feels
that his social gaclding doea not
delrstlrt Iron: the dignity of hi.-=
position.
'lhere i<nt a friendlier man
ill 9292'nsi1i|l::,'lon." says capital re-
porter Ell Folliard, who knows
the Chief Juslit-e well.
Warren i< known to have been
shocked and dieinayed by the FBI
decision that the threats against
him were :<e92linu.I: g|92nup;h to war-
rant a round-the-clock guard.
lintil his appointment to the high
bench the only 1'l'!mil._V he aroused
was political and impersonal.
"llh~ u-uulrl fake o pol-shot at
or _i||n'_oc?" he naked. -wonder1'ngl'y,
1rl'rr|I hr 1»-rrs fold of the aecurity
'li'lPl'1.1il|I.'t.
The tll1eatr~ning letters have
not curtailed Warren's frequent
attcrulzinr-e at Washington galas,
Where he usually can be found ol'f
ill a corner 'l.;lli92'lI'|}I ]92olitir:shis
i'a92'nril" topic-~V.itll old friends
and fellow veterans of the politi-
cal wars.
Ill
warren
House$orne Wonder if
Is Eyeing White
His p.-1.-wion for politics, un-
dl|llllliSi'ltl'i cl-ell ll.ftEl' ve years
of isolation from the hustinga,
has Ia-il."¢|i some observers to
wofltlel if he secretly harbor!
White House ambitions despite
hi-i vs-rv dr-nite disclaimer back
in 1952. .
But those who know him best
are convincerl his interest in
'|l~riliir~" is now purely conversa-
tional nml that his true love is
that of a lawyer for the court.
An_92-9292'z|y. he is Fi'lllittle Old for
ihe l|'e:-illcncy.
Next to politics. Warrena
chief oul.-ide interest is aports.
He i= said to have put the court
on a fi92'r--<'lr:_~. week in 1955 so
that he uould be free for Satur-
day's fuothnll comes.
For the Army-Navy game in
Philadelphia that year, the Chief
llnstice hired a private railroad
car. ar:.~.nr::-:l for lunch and din-
Her to he served on it, and in-
vited his: eight court colleagues
and their wivi-sto attend the in-
ter-scrvn-» classic as hia guests.
He 1-w-n picked up the tab for
ill". lirl<r92l.-', if there was a tab.
Tlw sv|"92-icvu are m-rrrtivn about
'.'1l'i| in-v list In Um liig game.!
Wm-ii-n':+ f0u|.lm|l Mancini"
Urns an npnual junkol tmtll this
|Iu-<t full, wlu-n it was utncclleql
for ll1l¢il:= 'il!.< "l rclnonn. Mrs.
Tom t"|:92|-I; vouturorl the ggplyig.
tion l.ha" perhaps the hoat
"couldn't re-|:-11min," ht: nu.Lseems hardly likely considering
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who the host is.
.n explanation nearer the
mark might be that the FBI was
reluctant to permit the nine jus-
tit-ea to afford a bunched target
Ior a crackpot who could post
himself along the track with a
homemade bomb. -
Athletically inclined himself,
Warren keeps in tip-top shape:
with frequent exercises and hand-
ball games in the basement _92-mof the Supreme Court Building.
Like most big men-hes 6 feet 1
and normally weighs over 200
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