US President Donald Trump has reportedly awarded a posthumous pardon to Zay Jeffries on October 10 who was a leing metal scientist. Jeffries was instrumental in victory of Allied forces in World War II. A White House Press Release anunced that President Trump has issued an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) to Zay Jeffries, who grew up in Fort Pierre, South Dakota. scientist reportedly developed artillery shells which pierced German tanks and was also part of consultations on Manhattan Project to build atomic bomb which helped end war in Pacific ater. Trump's pardon comes after about 54 years since Jeffries' death in 1965. case also attracted support from Senator Lindsey Graham, former Congressman Trey Gowdy, and ors. 

"President Donald J. Trump issued an Executive Grant of Clemency (Full Pardon) posthumously to Zay Jeffries for his conviction for engaging in anticompetitive conduct in violation of Sherman Act," re Official Press Release by White House.

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About Zay Jeffries

Born in 1888, Jeffries reportedly was an American mining engineer, metallurgist, consulting engineer, and recipient of 1946 John Fritz Medal. After his gruation in 1911 from Harvard, he h started as an assayer for Custer Co. mining company in South Dakota. Later that year, he accepted an appointment as an instructor at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. He also started as a consulting engineer in Cleveland-area in 1914. Grually in 1916, he was promoted to appointed assistant. Following this, he consulted metallurgy Laboratories at University of Chicago and participated in Manhattan Project. In 1939, he became an elected member of National Acemy of Sciences. 

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Jeffries received Presidential Medal for Merit despite a conviction

While working on Manhattan Project and artillery weapons, he was indicted on antitrust charges related to his employment in 1941. White House said in Press release that though Jeffries was indicted, he proved vital to war effort prompting Secretary of War Stimson to take extraordinary step of requesting, with President Roosevelt’s approval, that Attorney General defer any prosecution until after war. It furr re that when Department of Justice returned to case in 1947, it grounded its legal ory on a Supreme Court precedent that did t exist when Dr. Jeffries h initially been indicted. As per reports, judge in case was apologetic in handing down his sentence, which was a $2,500 fine with jail time. In 1948, same year as his conviction, President Truman awarded him with Presidential Medal for Merit.

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(With inputs from Associated Press)