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This series contains copies of handwritten testimony and the original typewritten testimony of 137 witnesses, including published articles submitted as testimony by University at Albany School of Criminal Justice professors, James Acker and Charles Lanier. Other witnesses include: Dr. Alice Green, Albany human rights activist; Hon. Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney of New York County; Bill Babbitt, brother of executed death row inmate Manny Babbitt; David Kaczynski, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty and brother of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski; Robert Meeropol, son of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg; and Bishop Dominick Lagonegro of the Archdiocese of New York. A complete list of witnesses can be found in the Box and Folder List.

This series consists mainly of letters and postcards. Also included are some war department press releases, newspaper clippings and photographs of former students of the New York State College for Teachers at Albany who were serving in the armed services. The papers also contain a card index listing the names and service addresses of all former State College students serving in the armed services from 1941 to 1945. Though for the most part the files contain correspondence relating to the activities of fellow students, they also include observations about fellow servicemen from the greater Albany area and about the social conditions where the correspondents were stationed. There are few observations about combat conditions.