Command influence : a story of Korea and the politics of injustice /

Shaines, Robert A.,

Command influence : a story of Korea and the politics of injustice / Robert A. Shaines. - Denver, Colorado : Outskirts Press, c2010. - 380 p. ; 25 cm.

Documents the story of George C. Schreiber, a twenty-five-year-old second lieutenant in charge of an Air Police guard unit in Pusan, Korea. A year earlier, in 1951, he had innocently been teaching fifth and sixth grade children in Brookfield, Illinois. A year later, he was convicted by a general court martial of premeditated murder. Robert Shaines was intimately involved in defending Schreiber against the charges brought against him. The subsequent injustices would ultimately involve the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, the President and the Supreme Court of the United States

9781598000214 Hardback. 9781432750688 Paperback.


Courts-martial and courts of inquiry.

951.9042 / Sh14