[PDF] Fort Leavenworth eBook

Author : Kenneth M. LaMaster
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 38,15 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738560823

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On March 17, 1827, Col. Henry Leavenworth received orders from Washington. Along with four companies of the 3rd Infantry Regiment, he departed from the Jefferson Barracks at St. Louis, traveled up the Missouri River, and selected a site for a permanent settlement. Cantonment Leavenworth was established on May 8, 1827, and renamed Fort Leavenworth on February 8, 1832. Since then, it has grown and met the demands of the U.S. Army. From the protection of pioneers along the Santa Fe Trail to peacekeeping missions among the Native Americans, the fort's role in the nation's expansion westward is second to none. Fort Leavenworth has continually reinvented itself to meet the challenges facing the nation. From training units during the Civil War to army education during Operation Enduring Freedom, the fort's many schools have stood true to their motto: Ad bellum pace parati (prepared in peace for war).

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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 1991
Category : African American soldiers
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Presents the transcript of a television interview with four African American veterans who served at Forty Leavenworth, Kansas, between the world wars.

Author : Donald Powell Wilson
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,86 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Correctional psychology
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" ... a psychologist's brilliant account of three years he spent in Leavenworth, studying the weird, pathetic, yet often hilarious quirks of the criminal mind"--Cover.

Author : Peter J. Schifferle
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,84 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Armed Forces
ISBN : 9780700617142

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Tells how the U.S. Army struggled with the logistics of millions of men in World War I, and then created professional training on a division level that helped win World War II, with a history of the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth, 1918-1945.

Author : Richard A. Serrano
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 43,80 MB
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0807060968

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Uncovers the hidden world of the military legal system and the intimate history of racism that pervaded the armed forces long after integration. Richard A. Serrano reveals how racial discrimination in the US military criminal justice system determined whose lives mattered and deserved a second chance and whose did not. Between 1955 and 1961, a group of white and black condemned soldiers lived together on death row at Fort Leavenworth military prison. Although convicted of equally heinous crimes, all the white soldiers were eventually paroled and returned to their families, spared by high-ranking army officers, the military courts, sympathetic doctors, highly trained attorneys, the White House staff, or President Eisenhower himself. During the same 6-year period, only black soldiers were hanged. Some were cognitively challenged, others addicted to substances or mentally unbalanced—the same mitigating circumstances that had won white soldiers their death row reprieves. These men lacked the benefits of political connections, expert lawyers, or public support; only their mothers begged fruitlessly for their lives to be spared. By 1960, John Bennett was the youngest black inmate at Fort Leavenworth. His lost battle for clemency was fought between 2 vastly different presidential administrations—Eisenhower’s and Kennedy’s—as the civil rights movement was gaining steam. Drawing on interviews, trial transcripts, and rarely published archival material, Serrano brings to life the characters in this lost history: from desperate mothers and disheartened appeals lawyers, to the prison doctors, psychiatrists, and chaplains. He shines a light on the scandalous legal maneuvering that reached the doors of the White House and the disparity in capital punishment that was cut so strictly along racial lines.