Shaw, Brackley Papers

Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary of War for Air, 1946; General Counsel, Department of the Air Force, 1947-49

The papers document a few aspects of Brackley Shaw's work as General Counsel, Department of the Air Force. Topics covered include air transport policy, the constitutionality of the National Security Act of l947, and air transportation for dependents of Department of the Air Force personnel.

Size: About 250 pages
Access: Open
Copyright: Copyright in the unpublished writings of Brackley Shaw in these papers has been donated to the people of the United States. In addition, documents prepared by United States government employees in the course of their official duties are also in the public domain. Copyright interest in documents which do not fall into these two catagories is presumed to remain with the creators of the documents.
Processed by: Dennis Bilger

This small collection of papers is all that Brackley Shaw kept in his possession when he left his position as General Counsel of the Department of the Air Force in l949. The remainder of his files are in the files of that department. The papers document a few aspects of Shaw's work as General Counsel. Topics covered include air transport policy, the constitutionality of the National Security Act of l947, and air transportation for dependents of Department of the Air Force personnel. Related materials in the Library's holdings are found in the White House Central Files: Official File (OF 249: aeronautics; OF l285-D: Department of the Air Force), the papers of Thomas K. Finletter, James T. Hill and Stuart Symington, and the Records of the President's Air Policy Commission.