My Life As a Radical Lawyer
Autobiography
By: William Kunstler
Date: 1994
Source: Kunstler, William M., with Shelia Isenberg. My Life As a Radical Lawyer. New York: Birch Lane, 1994, 214–216, 222–224.
About the Author: William Kunstler (1919–1995) graduated from Columbia Law School in 1948 and was one of the 1960s' and 1970s' most well known lawyers. He was either loved or hated. He defended, among others, Martin Luther King Jr., crime boss John Gotti, and the Chicago Seven. He took on other high-profile cases, such as the two American Indians indicted for the Attica riot. He also worked with those who took over Wounded Knee in protest of the 1890 Wounded Knee massacre. In the 1980s and 1990s, he defended Wayne Williams, a man convicted for murdering two Atlanta people, and El Sayyid Nassir, who was charged with murdering Rabbi Meir Kahane, head of the Jewish Defense League. Kunstler managed...
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