Reminiscences of Osmond Kessler Fraenkel, 1974.

Biographical Note

Lawyer; interviewee d.1983

Scope and Contents

Harvard, 1904-08; Columbia Law School; early law practice; Soviet cases; Norris, Patterson, Trop, and Leyra cases; American Civil Liberties Union, National Lawyer's Guild; obscenity, civil liberties, equal rights, communism in Unites States; publications; impressions of Arthur Garfield Hays, Morris Ernst, Alger Hiss, United States Supreme Court Justices

Subjects

• American Civil Liberties Union.
• Bloom, Marc, 1939- interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Communism--United States.
• Fraenkel, Osmond K. (Osmond Kessler), 1888-1983--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Law--Cases.
• Law--Political aspects.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• National Lawyers Guild.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Practice of law.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1980