Military justice.
Subtitle: Joint hearings before the Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary and a special subcommittee of the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, Eighty-ninth Congress, second session ...
Contributors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services.
Publisher: U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1059
Subjects: Courts-martial and courts of inquiry -- United States.; Military discharge -- United States.; Criminal jurisdiction -- United States.
Notes: Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The joint hearings took place between January 18 and March 3, 1966. Part 1 contains statements by 32 individuals, including Hon. Sam J. Ervin, Jr. (Senator, North Carolina), Rear Admiral Wilfred A. Hearn (Judge Advocate General of the Navy), Brig. Gen. Kenneth J. Hodson (Judge Advocate General of the Army), Hon. Jacob K. Javits (Senator, New York), Maj. Gen. R. W. Manss (Judge Advocate General of the Air Force), Hon. Robert E. Quinn (Chief Judge, U.S. Court of Military Appeals), and Hon. Strom Thurmond (Senator, South Carolina). Part 2 contains Appendix A, which includes the text, summaries, memoranda, and departmental views of bills S. 745-S. 762, sectional analyses of H.R. 273 (S.2906) and the proposed technical amendment to H.R. 277 (S. 2907). Appendix A also includes cases, various articles and other materials, such as Department of Defense (DoD) directives, a side-by-side comparison of the proposed House and Senate bills with the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and a brief bibliography. Part 3 contains Appendix B, which includes questionnaires - dated February 24, 1966 - from the Subcommittee to the DoD, cover letters, and the responses from each of the military branches.  Hearings held Jan. 18-Mar. 3, 1966 on S. 745-762, 2906-2907.