Louis Nizer Papers, 1940-1994

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Series IV: Addresses and Introductions, 1942-1980



Box 9 Address-Dinner to Pierre Van Paassen, "Pierre Van Paassen and Realistic Mysticism,", May 3, 1942


Box 9 Address: Jewish Army Dinner Honoring Robert Nathan, "The Right to Fight,", September 29, 1942


Box 9 Address-NY Country Lawyers Association, "The Jury Trial" 1945 ?, 1945


Box 9 "The Art of the Jury Trial,", September 1946


Box 9 Childcare, Godmothers League, March25, 1947


Box 9 Address: Address made at Hadassah, December 9, 1947


Box 9 Address-Annual Award of the Interfaith in Action Medal to Governor Herbert Lehman,, November 17, 1948


Box 9 Address-McCosker-Hershfield Dinner, December 4, 1948


Box 9 Address-National Conference of Christians and Jews, February4, 1949


Box 9 Address-Tendered to Milton Berle (Interfaith-in-Action Dinner), "Voting for God,", May 12, 1949


Box 9 Address-National Conference of Christians and Jews, "The Young Man and the Psychiatrist,", December 6, 1949


Box 9 Address -- Luncheon Meeting of the Theater Arts Group, Women's Division (Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of NY),, November 29, 1949


Box 9 Freeing the Judge, Address delivered before the Judicial Council of NY Bar Association,, January 28, 1950


Box 9 Address -- First Annual Awards Dinner of the Academy of Radio & TV, Best Arts & Sciences, Inc.,, March21, 1950


Box 9 Address -- Honor of Eddie Cantor & George Jessel (Jewish Theatrical Guild Dinner),, May 5, 1951


Box 9 Address -- Barney Balaban Testimonial Dinner (Westchesterb Jewish Center at the Commodore Hotel),, May 26, 1951


Box 9 Address -- Honoring Eric Johnson (National Conference of Christians and Jews), "The Sacrifice of the Ash Tree,", June 19, 1951


Box 9 Address -- Honor of Milton Berele By the Jewish theatrical Guild, May 3, 1952


Box 9 Address -- Awarding 50 Year Medal to Adolph Zukor (Masonic Foundation), October 14, 1952


Box 9 Address -- Brotherhood Awards Presented to Honorable Robert Murphy & General Carlos Romulo (Amusement Division Dinner: National Conference of Christians and Jews),, February4, 1954


Box 9 Address -- Independent order of Odd Fellows of the State of New York, "Paternity and Fraternity,", November 24, 1954


Box 9 Address: National Conference of Christians & Jews, January 13, 1955


Box 9 Address Honoring Harry Hershfield, "Man of the Mountain", May 17, 1955


Box 9 One World…Or None: We Have No Alternative, 1956


Box 9 "We Have No Alternative" (Correspondence), 1956


Box 9 Address -- Brotherhood Awards Presented to Robert Dowling, Thomas O'Neil & Samuel Rinzler, (Amusement Division Dinner: National Conference of Christians & Jews),, January 31, 1956


Box 9 Address -- Amateur Athletic Union Dinner (Honoring Mr. James Farley), April 24, 1956


Box 9 Address -- Honoring Goernor Adlai Stevenson at Hotel Waldorf-Astoria, August 1, 1956


Box 9 Address -- Stevenson-Kefauver Rally, September 12, 1956


Box 9 Lawyers of Greater New York, Dinner Honoring Judge Joseph A. Cox, October 23, 1956



Box 10 Address Presenting Harlan fiske Stone Award to Mr. Justice William O. Douglas, "Man and Judge", 1957


Box 10 Address -- Motion Picture Pioneer 19th Annual Dinner, (Honoring Joseph R. Vogel),, November 25, 1957


Box 10 Address: Speech made by Louis Nizer at the Harvard Club, October 13, 1956


Box 10 Address -- Association of Trial Lawyers, "A Lawyer's Prayer", May 5, 1960


Box 10 United Nations Address, June 12


Box 10 Address -- 11th Annual Forum of the New York Section National Council of Jewish Women, "Man and Morals.", January 26, 1960


Box 10 Address -- health for Peace Award Honoring Louis Nizer, "A Pebble in the Ocean," December 14., 1960


Box 10 Humanitarian Award to Eddie Cantor, February27, 1962


Box 10 Address -- The Circus, Saints & Sinners, October 23, 1962


Box 10 Address Before the 82nd Annual convention of the Tennessee Bar Association, "Ministers of Justice" Volum 31, Number 1, Fall, 1963


Box 10 Panel Discussion: Arbitration, February9, 1965


Box 10 Address: In Honor of Louis Nizer (The Beth Jacobs School for Girls), December 18, 1966


Box 10 American jewish Committee's Human Relations Award to Jack L.Warner, October 30, 1967


Box 10 Address at the national Mental Health Association, "Back to Mental health in the Twentieth Century", November 17, 1967


Box 10 Except From Address by Louis Nizer at the Ohio Bar Association, Peace Marches Addressed to Ho hi Minh, (1968 ?), Undated


Box 10 Public Hearing: WCBS TV, "Johnson vs. McCarthy.", March17, 1968


Box 10 Address -- national Conference of Christians and Jews (Honoring Leo Jaffe),, November 19, 1969


Box 10 Address Honoring General Omar Bradley, "Crystal Award,", April 1, 1970


Box 10 National Conference of Christians & Jews, "Brotherhood Must be the Answer,", December 3, 1970


Box 10 Undated Speech, 1970 ?, Undated, 1970


Box 10 Address at the 34th Annual Dinner of the Massachusetts


Box 10 Address at the 34th Annual Dinner of the Massachusetts Committee, May 20, 1971


Box 10 Address Before the Appellate Division Second Department, April 26, 1972


Box 10 Address -- Dean's Day Program at NY Law School, December 1, 1973


Box 10 Address -- Honoring Eric Sloane, January 25, 1974


Box 10 Address Made for United Jewish Appeal (Great Neck Temple), May 9, 1974


Box 10 "Literary Father of the Year" Address, May 22, 1974


Box 10 Address -- 36th Annual Maccabean Award Dinner Honoring Louis Nizer, February19, 1975


Box 10 "Looking into the Future", March1975


Box 10 Aliya (Organization which rehabilitates children in Israel), Honoring Otto Preminger,, June 8, 1978


Box 10 Pepperdine University School of Law Commencement Address, "Life University,", May 17, 1980


Box 10 Address -- Louis Nizer and Jack Valenti: Prime Minister's Medal of Israel,, October 28, 1980



Box 11 Interview Transcripts


Box 11 Church Affiliation Louis Nizer, 1955


Box 11 Esquire Interview of Louis izer by Allan Churchill, January 1955


Box 11 Replies to letter sent byb Mr. Gingrich on Churchill article on Louis Nizer,, 1954-1955


Box 11 Louis Nizer -- Interview Program Transcript (WCBS NEWS), May 3, 1964 "Newsmakers", May 3, 1964


Box 11 WNBC-TV, "Do Our Courts produce Justuce?", September 23, 1962


Box 11 WABC-TV, Conversation with Louis Nizer, February25, 1968


Box 11 Why Marriages Fail, January 23, 1969


Box 11 LHJ, Diana Lurie Interview with Louis Nizer, June 1969


Box 11 Medical Economics, See yourself as VIPs See You, February3, 1975


Box 11 NYCLA, Not Fit to Print, February1977


Box 11 Interview, Canadian Lawyer, September 1978


Box 11 Trial Diplomacy Journal, Volume 2, Number 1, Spring, 1979


Box 11 Trial Diplomacy Journal, Volume 3, Number 3, Fall, 1980


Box 11 Interview with Bottom Line, December 2, 1982


Box 11 Interview, Litigation, December 6, 1984


Box 11 Interview, Litigation, Spring & Summer, 1985



Box 12 Eulogies by Louis Nizer


Box 12 Eulogy -- Arde Bulova, Bulova --, March24, 1958


Box 12 Eulogy -- Ira Guilden, Guilden --, November 12, 1984


Box 12 Eulogy for Dr. Armand Hammer, Hammer -- Jan 4, 1991


Box 12 Eulogy for Stanley Niss, Niss --, July 24, 1969


Box 12 Eulogy for Louis Phillips, Phillips --, 1959


Box 12 Eulogy for Joseph Schenck, J. Schenck, October 26, 1961


Box 12 Eulogy for Nicholas Schenck, N. Schenck --, March7, 1969


Box 12 Eulogy for Sidney Schreiber, Schreiber --, June 8, 1979


Box 12 Eulogy for Cora J. Segal, Segal, July 7, 1970