George Furness oral history interview

1981-05-14/1981-05-18

Furness, George; Mayo, Marlene J.

Oral history interview with George Furness conducted by Marlene Mayo on May 14 and 18 1981. George Furness (1896 - 1985) was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and grew up in various places in New England, attending Harvard, and later went to law school. He served in the Army during WWI and in 1946 went to Japan as a civilian. During the Occupation, Furness was a defense lawyer in the War Crime Trials. He worked on an appeal with the Supreme Court of the U.S. to free the Japanese officials he was defending.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

Japan--History--Allied occupation, 1945-1952

Japan; Tokyo

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 02:33:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 42 pages (PDF)

This oral history interview is part of the Marlene J. Mayo oral histories. A guide to the full collection of Marlene J. Mayo oral histories is available in our archival collections: http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/42478.
Accession 2009-209-GWP
An interview transcript is available.

Filename: prange-087541