Friday, August 13, 2010

"Death Plucks My Ear"

Back in 2007, Paul Horwitz over on PrawfsBlawg posted the link to Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes's moving statement at the conclusion of the national radio broadcast commemorating his ninetieth birthday, in March 1931. For the benefit of LHB readers who might have missed it, here it is. A colleague tells me that Paul Freund used to play it for his constitutional law seminar at the Harvard Law School.

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