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.

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 ...

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 ...

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. The overturning of Roe ...

In part two of a special report on the released tapes of the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, two legal experts discuss what the Blackmun papers say about the inner-workings of the ...

History Theatre's 'Courting Harry' is superb REVIEW: Lee Blessing sketches the fraught friendship between Harry Blackmun and Warren Burger in a richly interesting new play.

When a divided Supreme Court struck down the death penalty 50 years ago Wednesday, Justice Harry Blackmun voted against the ruling, even as he made it clear that he personally opposed capital ...

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 ...

On June 2, 1995, Justice Blackmun and then-Professor Koh talked about the death penalty, (which Justice Blackmun turned against toward the end of his tenure), an obscenity case, and the [Roe v ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...