Louis Nizer Papers, 1940-1994

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Series III: Writings



Box 4 Biographical Materials & My Life in Court


Box 4 Reviews & Quotatons From "My Life in Court"


Box 4 Mss, My Life in Court --Introduction


Box 4 "His Life is Still in Court," Columbia College Today, Spring/Summer, 1991



Box 5 Catspaw


Box 5 Catspaw: Court Documents


Box 5 Catspaw: Louis Nizer Manuscripts


Box 5 Ctaspaw: Revision Draft, June 1990


Box 5 Catspaw, Correspondence with S. S. Vaughn


Box 5 Catspaw: Revision Draft, June 1990


Box 5 Catspaw, Correspondence with S. S. Vaughn


Box 5 Catspaw, Correspondence with S. S. Vaughn


Box 5 Catspaw, Correspondence with S. S. Vaughn



Box 6 Chicago Tribune Columns


Box 6 Column I, On Polution


Box 6 Column 2, Reflections Without Mirrors, 08/08/71


Box 6 Column IV, On Arab-Israel Conflict, March4, 1971


Box 6 Column V, On My Lai and Punishment of War Criminals, 3-10-71


Box 6 Column VI, on Khruschev's Secret Speech and His Memoirs, 3-16-71


Box 6 Column VII, on the Subject of Press Conferences, March31, 1971


Box 6 Column VIII, on Language, March1971


Box 6 Column IX, on Drugs, August 22, 1971


Box 6 Column XI, Our Boycott of the Film Festival in Moscow, 5/8/71


Box 6 Thought Drops: 1-12, August 29, 1971


Box 6 Column XV, Nixon's Visit to China


Box 6 Column XVI, Thought Drops 13-18, 09/12/71


Box 6 Column XVI, "A Different View of the Middle East,", 09/05/71


Box 6 Column XVIII, "The Miracle of Castle Hill,", 10/03/71


Box 6 Column XIX, Confrontation at Suez, October 17, 1971


Box 6 Column XX, Thoughts Drops 19-21, September 1971


Box 6 Column XXI, Some Judges Swell -- Others grow, October 10, 1971


Box 6 Column XXII, How to Unite the UN, 10-12-71


Box 6 Column XXIII, Mysteries of Money


Box 6 Column XXIV, Turning Defeat into Victory


Box 6 Column XXV, Nixon's Visit to Moscow


Box 6 Column XXVI, Thought Drops 22-26


Box 6 Thought Drops-Numbers 27-


Box 6 Column XXVII An Insurance Pact Among Dictators


Box 6 Column XXVIII, Will Cairo Be Underwater?


Box 6 Column XX_ _, Trial by Headline, 12-7-71


Box 6 Column XXX, Thought Drops-27-29


Box 6 Column XXXI, Rating Motion, January 16, 1972


Box 6 Column XXXIII, New Evidence in Kennedy Assassination


Box 6 Column XXXIV Coincidence and Negligence, January 14, 1972


Box 6 Column XXXV, Hughes and Hoaxes, 1-27-72


Box 6 Column XXXVI, Thought Drops --(30-33), February3, 1972


Box 6 Column XXXVII, No-Fault Divorce, 2-7-71


Box 6 Column XXXVIII, Alimony and Property Settlement, 2-7-72


Box 6 Column XXXIX, New Approach to Divorce and Property Division, February7, 1972


Box 6 Column XL, California Abolishes the Gas Chamber, 2-22-72


Box 6 Column XLI, Thought Drops -- 34-36, February22, 1972


Box 6 Column 42, The Communiqué that Wasn't, March13, 1972


Box 6 Column 43, How to Pick a Jury, 3-23-72


Box 6 Column 44, Tell me no Fortunes, 3-28-72


Box 6 Column 45, At Last -- A Cancer Cure


Box 6 Column 46, Our Future is in the Stars, 4-11-72


Box 6 Column 47, Smart They Are Not, 4-18-72


Box 6 Column 48, Thought Drops -- 37 & 38, April 25, 1972


Box 6 Column 49, Economics in a Thimble, 5-2-72


Box 6 Column 50, An Experiment on an Island, 5-9-72


Box 6 Column 51, An Experiment on an island: Part II


Box 6 Column 52, An Experiment on an island: Part III, 5-23-72


Box 6 Column 53, An Experiment on an island: Part 4


Box 6 Comments by Louis Nizer


Box 6 Columns with no #'s (Alphabetical order)


Box 6 Israel, December 19, 1971


Box 6 Mid-East Crisis, 12/05/71


Box 6 A Nation Can Be Libelled, Too, 07/11/71


Box 6 A Perspective from the Moon, Semptember 19, 1971


Box 6 Political Trials Are Not Political


Box 6 The Right to Breed Must Be Limited -- How?, July 20, 1971


Box 6 The Sexual Approach to Prison Reform


Box 6 Three Approaches to Obscenity, Jul;y 4, 1971


Box 6 Two Chinas, November 21, 1971



Box 7 Unpublished Articles


Box 7 Capital Punishment


Box 7 Confusion in the Goetz Case


Box 7 Freeing the Judge: How to Treat Treason in the Courtroom


Box 7 The Great Gap (Between Humanism and Science)


Box 7 The Great Theft


Box 7 How to Be a Good Witness


Box 7 How do you tell a liar?


Box 7 "Ideas For a Real Price"


Box 7 Unpublished, Iran: Rule of Probability


Box 7 Unpublished, Israel's Obstinancy, 1979


Box 7 "Let My People Go,", 1954


Box 7 "The New Invasion," (Unknown Whether Published), 1947


Box 7 "Peace"


Box 7 Pictorial History of the World's Great Trials From Socrates to Eichmann (Review by Louis Nizer)


Box 7 "President Waldeheim-A Legal Postscript,", 1986


Box 7 "Ransom" (Review by Louis Nizer)


Box 7 Unpublished, Settlements Are Legal, 1980


Box 7 "The Strange Silence,", 1969


Box 7 (Unpublished) There Is No Mystery-Psychological Study of the Kennedy Assassination,, December 19, 1973


Box 7 Unpublished, Impeachment or Censure, August 1974


Box 7 Women on Juries



Box 8 Short Stories


Box 8 Short Stories, "Be Judge For the Day,", 1963


Box 8 (June 1955 Issue-Esquire), "The Cutlass"


Box 8 October 1956 "My Father", October 1956


Box 8 "The Masseur"


Box 8 "Professor Terry and the Lady in Brown"


Box 8 "The Zipper"