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| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with The Honorable Damon J. Keith
The Honorable Damon J. Keith
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| Other authors / contributors: | Keith, Damon J. (Damon Jerome), 1922-2019, interviewee.
Richardson, Julieanna L., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Julieanna L. Richardson, interviewer.
Recorded Detroit, Michigan 2002 August 21.
Recorded Detroit, Michigan 2007 March 6.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Federal judge Damon J. Keith was born on July 4, 1922. Keith received his B.A. degree from West Virginia State College in 1943, his J.D. degree from Howard Law School in 1949, and his L.L.M. degree from Wayne State University School of Law in 1956. President Lyndon Johnson appointed Keith to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan in 1967. He served as chief judge from 1975 until 1977 when President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Keith took senior status in 1995. Keith's decision in United States v. Sinclair, 1971, where he famously ruled that Nixon's Attorney General John N. Mitchell had to disclose the transcripts of illegal wiretaps that were authorized without first obtaining a search warrant, came to be known as "the Keith Decision." In 1993, the Damon J. Keith Law Collection was created at Wayne State University.
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