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Harry Blackmun died on March 4, 1999, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. For more information on this topic, check out the original entry on MNopedia. You need us and we need you .
The Library of Congress opened the papers of the late Justice Harry Blackmun on Thursday, releasing a trove of material from 24 years of internal deliberations at the Supreme Court on issues such ...
Harry Blackmun met Warren Burger in kindergarten in a working-class neighborhood of St. Paul in 1912. Nearly 60 years later, they were still the closest of friends when Blackmun joined Burger on ...
Last month, Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun faced yet another group of abortion protesters toting signs, this time in his hometown of St. Paul, Minn. “Blackmun repent!” the signs r… ...
The archived records of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun are released to the public, five years after his death, as he had instructed. Among the half-million items are Blackmun's personal ...
The papers of the late Justice Harry Blackmun were released Thursday and show that the Supreme Court was ready to effectively overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion in 1992.
Harry Blackmun's mother warned him this would happen. When Blackmun was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1970, Mrs. Theo Blackmun suggested that his lifelong friendship with fellow St ...
In 1995 Harry Blackmun, author of Roe v. Wade, predicted the decision would be accepted, just as Brown v. Board of Eduction, and that American would move on to other issues.
Blackmun spent his early days in one of those houses. His father was a traveling man, so his mother came home to have her child. Soon afterward, the Blackmuns moved to Minnesota, but young Harry ...
The archived records of Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun are released to the public, five years after his death, as he had instructed. Among the… ...
REVIEW: Lee Blessing sketches the fraught friendship between Harry Blackmun and Warren Burger in a richly interesting new play. By GRAYDON ROYCE, Star Tribune. March 4, 2013 at 7:51PM.