Jack Boger Oral History Interview

Originally from the small mill town of Concord, North Carolina, Jack Boger joined LDF as an attorney in 1978 to work on the capital punishment docket after graduating from the University of North Carolina School of Law. He served as the Director of LDF’s Capital Punishment Project and famously represented Warren McCleskey multiple times before the U.S. Supreme Court to fight McCleskey’s death sentence. He left LDF to join his alma mater’s law faculty, where he served as Dean and formed the UNC Center for Civil Rights.

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Jack Boger discusses LDF's impact litigation strategy on death penalty cases

FULL INTERVIEW

2023

Oral History

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Jack Boger interview for the Legal Defense Fund Oral History Project. Interviewed by Seth Kotch on February 24, 2023 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Conducted in collaboration with the Southern Oral History Program at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.