court to oversee compliance by the Board of Education with the desegregation orders. "Battisti believed and stood for something much larger than the minutiae of constitutional doctrine", McMullen said. "He possessed the intellect to understand the sweep of history". Battisti was interred at Cleveland's Calvary Cemetery. References Sources External links FJC Bio Legal Chronology of Kent State Shootings Judges of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio United States district court judges appointed by John F. Kennedy 20th-century American judges Ohio State University Moritz College of Law alumni Harvard Law School alumni Ohio state court judges Kent State shootings Lawyers from Cleveland Lawyers from Youngstown, Ohio 1922 births 1994 deaths Burials in Calvary Cemetery (Cleveland) 20th-century American lawyers United States Army personnel of World War II United States Army officers Deaths from typhus Infectious disease deaths in Ohio American people of Italian descent