At the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders after World War II, young attorney Thomas Dodd's inquisition of the brilliant Hermann Göring provided the centerpiece of the trials. Walter Cronkite, who covered Nuremberg, said years later that Dodd had saved the day. In 1990, his children discovered his voluminous correspondence from Nuremberg to his wife, Grace. These letters describing the trial and events leading up to it is the writer's unfussy concern for righteousness, which under the circumstances meant winning the case-and in the proper way. Thomas Dodd, like his son presidential hopeful Christopher Dodd, later became a senator. Senator Dodd will discuss his father's excerpted letters. Part of the Presidential Caucus Series, providing the university community with opportunities to question presidential candidates or their representative before the precinct caucuses.
Democratic presidential candidate and Connecticut Senator Christopher Dodd is chair of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Dodd was a onetime General Chairman of the Democratic National Committee and served three terms in the House of Representatives before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1980. He has a B.A. from Providence College, a law degree from the University of Louisville School of Law, and served in the U.S. Peace Corps.
Cosponsored By:- ISU Democrats
- Committee on Lectures (funded by GSB)
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