Walter F. White: "U.S. Department of (White) Justice" - Milestone Documents

Walter F. White:  “U.S. Department of (White) Justice”

( 1935 )

Glossary

  • color as a legal term, pretense, as in “under color of authority, law, or custom”
  • Lindbergh kidnapping law a law passed in 1932 in response to the highly publicized kidnapping and murder of the son of the aviation hero Charles Lindbergh in New Jersey
  • prima facie a legal term from the Latin for “at first sight,” referring to a fact presumed to be true unless rebutted by evidence
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Walter White (Library of Congress)

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