biography
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Musmanno, Michael Angelo
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| lived:
| (1897–1968)
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| biography:
| Judge and writer, born in Stowe Township, Pennsylvania, USA. He served in both World War 1 (infantryman) and World War 2 (lieutenant-commander to rear-admiral). He earned a total of seven academic degrees and was a successful, if controversial, lawyer in Pittsburgh, PA. He tried to reverse the verdict that condemned Sacco and Vanzetti to death (1927), was a member of the team appointed to ascertain whether Adolf Hitler had died in Berlin, was a judge at the Nuremberg War Trials (1946), and was a witness for the prosecution in the trial of Adolf Eichmann (1961). In 1934–40 he served as judge of the court of common pleas in Allegheny County, PA, and became a member of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1951–68). A staunch anti-Communist, he co-wrote the Communist Control Act of 1954, and also wrote Ten Days to Die (1956) and Columbus Was First (1966). |
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