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Original jurisdiction are preserved here at the National Archives as are opinions, docket books, minutes, attorney rolls with our earliest records starting in 1790. We also have the audio recordings of the Supreme Court and the majority have been digitized and available online. We are working on a project to prepare all of these digital recordings for our online catalog and we hope to have them available by september of this year. Since its founding in 1934 the National Archives has hosted Supreme Court justices in person as well as in its records. In some of the justices we will discuss tonight have had close connections with this agency. In the 1950s Justice Felix frankfurter served on the board of the National Historical publications and records commission, followed by justice brendan, rehnquist, blackman and associater. In the 1960s Justice Goldberg served on the archivist advisory council. The archives launched a series of conversations with Supreme Court justices of the United St