The Power of the Press in the Sutton Case

“Governmental actions should be neither secret nor unjust. . . . If we cannot get justice through the courts, every newspaper in the United States shall have the facts as we have them and then see what the opinion of the world will be.” Rosa Brant Sutton A Soul on Trial  Rowman & Littlefield  (2007)…

Major Henry Leonard

Honor, Military Reputations and the Truth in the Sutton Case

The influence of a gaping and curious public can have no effect on the conduct of the Judge Advocate in this matter. . . . The hallowed grave of a dead son is no more sacred than the grave of a military reputation and there are a great many military reputations at stake in this…