Dedication of Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland (2 parts) (Speech File 1427) of August 31, 1942
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FOR THE PRESS
DOEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 8, 1942
1:20 P.M., E.E.T.
The President completed his review of the findings
and sentences of the Military Commission appointed by him cn
July 2, 1942 which tried the eight Nazi saboteurs.
The President approved the judgment of the Military
Commission that all of the prisoners were guilty and that they
be given the death sentence by electrocution.
However, there was a unanimous recomsendation by the
Commission, concurred in by the Attorney General and the Judge
Advocate General of the Arny, that the sentence of two of the
prisoners be commated to life imprisonment because of their
assistance to the Government of the United States in the ap-
prehension and conviction of the others.
The commutation directed by the President in the case
of Burger was to confinement at hard labor for life. In the
case of Dasch, the sentence was commuted by the President to
confinement at hard labor for thirty years.
The electrocutions began at noon today. Six of the
prisoners were electrocuted, The other two were confined to
prison.
The records in all eight cases will be sealed until the
end of the wer.
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