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Hearing Before the
Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate

on

“Former U.S. World War II POWs: A Struggle for Justice”

Wednesday, June 28, 2000
10:00 a.m., SD-226




WITNESS LIST






"Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico"






"The Honorable David Ogden, Esq., Acting Assistant Attorney General"






"Ronald J. Bettauer from the U.S. Department of State"






"Harold Poole of Salt Lake City, Utah"






"Frank Bigelow of Brooksville, Florida"






"Lester Tenney, Ph.D. of La Jolla, California"






"Maurice "Mo" Mazer of Boca Raton, Florida"






"Ed Jackfert of Wellsburg, West Virginia"






"Professor Harold Maier of Vanderbilt University Law School in Nashville, Tennessee"



JUDICIARY SENATORS' PANEL


Senator Orrin G. Hatch, Committee Chairman


SENATORS' PANEL


The Honorable Jeff Bingaman
United State Senator
State of New Mexico



The Honorable Max Cleland
United States Senator
State of Georgia


Panel I


The Honorable David Ogden, Esq.
Acting Assistant Attorney General
Civil Division
Washington, D.C.


Robert J. Bettauer
Deputy, Legal Advisor
U.S. Department of State
Washington, D.C.


Panel II


Harold Poole
former WWII Prisoner of War in Japan
Salt Lake City, UT


Frank Bigelow
former WWII Prisoner of War in Japan
Brooksville, FL


Lester Tenney, Ph.D.
former WWII Prisoner of War in Japan
author, My Hitch in Hell
La Jolla, CA


Maurice “Mo” Mazer
former WWII Prisoner of War in Japan
Boca Raton, FL


Ed Jackfert
Commander, Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor
former WWII Prisoner of War in Japan
Wellsburg, WV


Professor Harold Maier
Vanderbilt University Law School
Nashville, TN