# Harry A. Blackmun oral history interview. Session 5

Harry Blackmun describes his years as a new parent, working, attending a Methodist church, and finding time to create memories with his wife and children. He speaks about his job as resident counsel for the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota and how happy his whole family was during those years. Blackmun says that he kept in touch with Judge Sanborn, who later helped get Blackmun get nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals (8th Circuit). Blackmun shares stories of the judges he worked alongside there and how, after working 217 cases, the one he felt most strongly about was Maxwell v. Bishop, which he used to express his antipathy for the death penalty. He also confided that he was proud of the Jackson v. Bishop result involving cruel and unusual punishment in Arkansas.

- Kind: Interview
- Year: 1994
- Runtime: 1 h 54 min
- By: Blackmun, Harry A. (harry Andrew)
- Genres: History
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2023600519/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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