He also had no problems with pointing out the people that he disliked (including JFK), Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2014. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/30474238> ; http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/oclc\/621184903>, http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/30474238>.
In this autobiography, Kunstler recounts some of his most famous cases, including the trials of the Chicago Seven and the World Trade Center bombing, and tells of his early work in the Civil Rights movement.
HEFFNER: But, you see, that’s just exactly what I’m asking you about. For example, in the O.J. He said it in a church in the 1870’s or 80’s I think that, if you look at government today and you see what happens to people like Mike Espy, for example, a many I knew in Mississippi, first Black Congressman since Reconstruction, who gets sucked into the situation of accepting a few, very tiny favors, a little bit of tuition for his girlfriend, for example, a few plane rides, a few motel rooms. KUNSTLER: I’ll tell you, there was some violence against the police in the … during the Sixties. The recording benefits from period music and snippets of vintage news audio for scene setting.
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My life as a radical lawyer. Whether he has done it to himself, which probably is the best first question to ask my guest. KUNSTLER: Well, I don’t think the word “elitist” is right. For society’s reject, however, for those on the outside looking, whether or not one might in common sense and good conscience make a reasonable case for them, if a case can be made under the law, then William Kunstler will be there, loud, if not clear always, and that may be precisely why Vanity Fair could write an article about him recently entitled “The Most Hated Lawyer in America.”, Well, now Birch Lane Press has published his My Life as a Radical Lawyer.
And I have only done that really two or three times in my career. And for definition, one need really go no further than the author himself He wrote, “I know that I am disliked, even despised, by those who hate my clients, even before they’re tried.
KUNSTLER: Yes, but what about the people who support them? I argued that case in Austin. And we do get something in return. But the violence at the hands of some of your clients.
When he got rich by handling a millionaire's estate, lawyer William Kuntsler decided to devote his legal career to representing people and causes he believed in -- most notably Martin Luther King, Jr.
Though he gives an interesting if idiosyncratic introduction to legal politics, Kunstler seems primarily obsessed with his outsider status; he needs to prove that he is hip and sexy despite his briefcase. How the system rears back and devours them in really an illegitimate fashion, compared to other clients. And that, of course, is attorney William Kunstler’s basic stock in trade, being just such a pain, theatrically much so, particularly to more traditional persons defending society’s more traditional institutions. So those are the things you do now as a movement lawyer. So the whole thing changed. 0000000863 00000 n
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They want to stay in power, they want to hold power, and therefore there has to be people who always fight the system, and always must be, I guess, burrs under the cow’s tail, which I think is maybe a description of me.
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And this is another episode in our Golden Oldies Retrospective marking the program’s golden anniversary. HEFFNER: But why then do so many people feel that Bill Kunstler has made himself the object for those two minutes of hate over and over again in case after case? HEFFNER: Now, regrets? And they leave it all. HEFFNER: What did you think of Ron’s article?
But I think, from the caricatures that emerge, seems like, from the Chicago trial for example, that all I’m doing is ranting and raving. From reading this book, one can easily understand why he was so hated by so many during this time period. Top subscription boxes – right to your door, © 1996-2020, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. [William M Kunstler; Sheila Isenberg] Home. That’s what we have here.
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This biography is a wonderful memoir about the dedicated and crafty lawyer's personal and professional life, filled with stories of how Kuntsler used the law to benefit those who sought to make positive change in America's turbulent 1960s. Any? KUNSTLER: Well, the Washington, DC school case, which I mentioned very briefly, where we ended the track system so that millions of Black kids since 1967 could go to college and not be bound by this awful, White oriented testing in the third grade that made them all take courses making them mechanics and domestics and so on.
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