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Joseph B. Keenan
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QUOTE: "War and
treaty-breakers should be stripped of the glamour of national heroes and exposed
as what they really are—plain, ordinary murderers."
[International
Military Tribunal for the Far East]
AUTHOR: Joseph B. Keenan A.K.A Joseph Berry Keenan (11 January 1888 in
Pawtucker, Rhode Island - 8 December 1954 in Asheboro, North Carolina) was a
United States political figure. He served in the administrations of Franklin
Roosevelt and Harry Truman, and was the chief prosecutor in the International
Military Tribunal for the Far East. He graduated from Brown University in 1910
and earned his Juris Doctor at Harvard Law School. Keenan served with the 137th
Field Artillery during World War I and later with the Judge Advocate Generals
Department. After retiring from military, he became an assistant to the U.S.
attorney general and director of the Criminal Division of the Justice
Department.
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