Robert Donihi oral history interview

1978-11-30/1980-03-04

Donihi, Robert; Dove, Kay

Oral history interview with Robert Donihi conducted by Kay Dove on November 30 and December 5, 1978; January 30 and March 4, 1980. Robert Mills Donihi (May 18, 1915 - July 28, 2006) was born in Erie, Pennsylvania. He practiced law in Nashville, Tennessee.  In 1945, at the invitation of Attorney General Clark, he went to Washington, DC, where he was hired by the Justice and War Departments to serve as an assistant U.S. civilian prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE).  In December 1946, after completing his work at the IMTFE, he became a Chief Trial Attorney prosecuting and defending cases before the U.S. War Crimes Tribunals at the Dachau Concentration Camp.

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)

Oral histories

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

Japan; Virginia; Fairfax

Postwar Japan

Special Collections and University Archives

English

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Recording: 01:03:00 (audiocassette; mp3); Transcript: 102 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-087532