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Release date: April 27, 2004 Emory Law Alumni Relate WW II Experiences
Featured will be a film created from videotaped interviews of World War II veterans who are members of the Emory law classes of 1947-1951. Panelists will be some of the lawyers and jurists who were interviewed for the film and as part of an oral history project at the law school that has chronicled the lives and war experiences of Emory law veterans. William L. Paul, Emory law class of 1948 and leader of the project, will be moderator. Panelists will include: Judge Anthony Alaimo, U.S. District Court of Georgia, Emory law class of 1948, Warner Currie of Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers, class of 1949; Judge James H. Hill, U.S. Court of Appeals, class of 1948; Cecil C. Malone Jr., Malone Construction Company, class of 1950; and James L. Starnes, The Windstar Group, class of 1949. The program will begin with a film created from videotaped interview of several World War II veterans. Paul who has conducted 17 of the videotaped interviews so far, each lasting about an hour and a half, says they include accounts that are surprising, harrowing and inspiring. Alaimo, for example, was a prisoner of war for nearly two years during the war and part of a daring escape from a German camp, which later became the basis for the 1963 film, "The Great Escape." Starnes was a navigator on the famous battleship, USS Missouri, and was officer of the deck when the Japanese came abroad to sign official surrender documents. The project also has inspired a group of law alumni to make an anniversary visit to England and Normandy to visit sites critical to the D-Day invasion; the group is scheduled to leave May 11 for a 10-day trip. ###
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