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- In 1933, he began his studies at Fordham University, where he completed a Bachelor of Arts degree in English in 1937. He wanted to become a journalist but his father convinced him to study law at Harvard Law School, beginning in autumn of 1937, where he completed his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1940.
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Oct 9, 2015 · On November 15, 1957, attorney James B. Donovan, who represented Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, urged Judge Mortimer W. Byers not to consider the death penalty for his client.
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Oct 1, 2016 · After the United States entered World War II, Donovan became a U.S. Naval Reserve officer and served as general counsel to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the predecessor of the CIA, which eventually led to Donovan’s crucial role in the principal Nuremberg trials.
Jun 11, 2020 · Donovan was an insurance lawyer who'd worked for the Office of Strategic Services (forerunner to the CIA) during World War II. He’d also served as associate prosecutor at the principal...
Nov 25, 2015 · Just six months after the spy swap at the center of Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies,” James B. Donovan, the New York lawyer who negotiated that exchange in real life, sat down in Havana...
Nov 27, 2015 · In the event, with Donovan’s help Abel received the full range of American legal and constitutional rights and protections, or, as the lawyers put it, he was granted ‘due process of law.’
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Oct 16, 2015 · In 1950, John Donovan Jr., an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York, was elected to a seat in the New York State Senate. He was serving his third term as a state senator in March 1955, when he died suddenly of a heart attack at age 42.
In 1950 Donovan became a partner in the New York based law office of Watters and Donovan. It was while working as a private lawyer that Donovan was approached by the Brooklyn Bar Association and asked to defend an accused Russian spy, Colonel Rudolf Abel.
