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Lauson Stone



 
 
Lauson Harvey Stone (1905 in Manhattan -November 7 1999 in Brooklyn), son of US Chief Justice Harlan Stone, was US a lawyer and civic leader.

In 1942, he was assigned by the War Department to be a defense lawyer for eight Nazi saboteurs involved in Operation Pastorius
Operation Pastorius

Operation Pastorius was a failed plan for sabotage via a series of attacks by Nazi Germany agents inside the United States of America. The operation was staged in June 1942 and was to be directed against strategic U.S....
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Stone received a bachelor's degree in 1925 from Harvard and a law degree in 1928 from Columbia.
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