Word: courtroom
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Best." Last week, in a bare-boarded, dirty-windowed courtroom in London's Grosvenor Square, before a U.S. Army general court-martial, the ugly story began to unfold. The first defendant was slight, mild-looking Sergeant Judson H. Smith, a guard at the camp, who got an 8th-grade education in bloody Harlan County, Ky. In the words of Colonel James A. Kilian, camp commandant, Smith was "one of the best non-commissioned officers I've ever seen." In four perspiring hours on the stand, Smith denied all charges of mistreating prisoners. Outside the court, the disarmingly forthright...
...McVay left the courtroom at the Washington Navy Yard to await the verdict, the trial judge advocate, Captain Thomas J. Ryan Jr., a friend of 25 years, said: "Charlie, I want you to know there was nothing personal in this and I wish it had come out the other...
Captain Sam Harris, 33, of New York, a handsome, uniformed, confident figure, stepped to the microphone in Nürnberg's courtroom last week and read seriously from the first page of his brief: "The noise you hear is my knees knocking. They haven't knocked like this since the day I asked my wife to marry me." To cover their embarrassment, the British lawyers smiled. The Russians shrugged; such naiveté was just one more thing they did not understand about Americans. But the Russians were not surprised when Harris went on to make a highly effective...
Captain John P. Cady, U.S.N., had already protested the Jap's admission to the courtroom, protested "calling one of the officers of a defeated enemy who, as a nation, have proved guilty of every despicable treachery ... to testify against one of our commanding officers. . . ." Cady had fought against "any such grotesque [and unprecedented] proceedings." The court had overruled him. Now Cady rose again, demanding: "Does he know the meaning of truth and falsehood...
Among the silent spectators in the silent courtroom was a woman whose only son had been lost in the sinking of the heavy cruiser Indianapolis in the Philippine Sea last July 30. Another woman who listened was the wife of Captain Charles Butler McVay III, captain of the Indianapolis. McVay had spent four days bobbing in the oil-covered, sun-seared Philippine Sea after the "Indy" went down. It was McVay who was now on trial, charged with negligence and inefficiency in the loss of his ship. He also sat there, listening to the man who had humiliated...