On Tuesday, May 27th, 2025 West Forest students in Mr. Wortman’s History and Holocaust courses traveled to Frewsburg and Jamestown, New York to learn more about the life of Robert H. Jackson. Over the course of the second semester, students have studied Warren County native Robert H. Jackson in great detail. He is the only American to serve the government in all three roles as the Solicitor General of the United States, the Attorney General of the United States, and as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. During their courses, students also heavily focused on Jackson’s role as the chief prosecutor of high ranking Nazi officials at the Nuremberg Trials. The first stop on the trip was Maple Grove Cemetery in Frewsburg, New York. Students viewed Jackson’s grave and read a plaque that was recently added detailing Jackson’s professional life. After this, they traveled to the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York. While at the Center, students learned about the people Jackson prosecuted in Nuremberg, the important Supreme Court Cases he took part in, and his early life in Jamestown. The picture below shows the class members in one of the rooms at the center where President Ulysses S. Grant had lunch in 1875. It was a wonderful opportunity for them to walk in the footsteps of two great American civil servants.
