Brannon, John G. (John Gregory), 1913-1987

John Brannon plays tennis while in Japan. John Brannon was a defense attorney who represented Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. This is a double exposed image.

John Brannon stands in front of a Japanese structure. John Brannon was a defense attorney who represented Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

This image is double exposed and shows John Brannon and Elaine Fischel. John Brannon was a defense attorney who represented Admiral Osami Nagano, Admiral Shigetaro Shimada, Koichi Kido, and Shigenori Togo at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. Fischel was Brannon's legal secretary.

John Brannon, center, stands next to Hideki Tojo, left, and Kenryo Sato, right. John Brannon was a defense attorney who represented Admiral Osami Nagano, Admiral Shigetaro, Shimada, Koichi Kido, and Shigenori Togo at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan. Tojo and Sato were Japanese war criminals.

Twenty-eight international defense attorneys for the Japanese war criminals who were a part of the International Military Tribunal of the Far East war crimes trial held in Tokyo, Japan pose for a photograph. Front row, third from right is John Brannon. All others are not identified.

Hachiro Okuyama (left), Admiral Osami Nagano (center), and John Brannon (right). Nagano was on trial for war crimes with his involvement with the Japanese during WWII. Okuyama served as Nagano's Japanese Chief Counsel; Brannon was his American Associate Counsel.

John Brannon, a defense attorney for Japanese war criminals sits with Sogi, right, and Okuyama, a lawyer, to his left. Original caption handwritten on the back: "The host Sogi, very wealthy, is to my right, Okuyama, lawyer, to my left. Now don't blame me - remember in school they taught "When in Rome, do as the Romans do."

John Brannon sits between two unidentified Japanese boys. John Brannon was a defense attorney who represented Japanese war criminals at the International Military Tribunal of the Far East held at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan.

John Brannon stands at a lectern at the War Ministry Building in Tokyo, Japan in the courtroom during the International Military Tribunal of the Far East. Brannon, defense attorney for Osami Nagano, who was on trial with 26 other alleged war criminals, announces the death of the one time Japanese Admiral and Chief of Staff of the Japanese Navy at the time of Pearl Harbor. Admiral Nagano died from an attack of bronchial pneumonia at the 361st U.S. Army Station Hospital, January 5th, after being moved from Sugamo Prison the previous day.

John Brannon crouches down in the middle of a street near military Jeeps. Brannon was a defense attorney for the Japanese war criminals during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo, Japan.