JAMES BUCKLEY,NY SENATOR 1976 TYPED-SIGNED,RE: DISBAR ACTIVIST ATTORNEY KUNSTLER

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James Buckley was brother of William F. Buckley, Jr.
of The National Review.
Conservative Senator from New York.
Buckley was pursuing initiatives to have William Kunstler
disbarred from practicing law.
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Edmund Muskie, Joseph Biden, Walter Mondale,
Robert Dole, etc.
Genuine Signature, blue ballpoint pen.
7 1/2" x 8 5/8"  not a usual size sheet.
light wrinkle upper right.
blank on reverse.
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William Kunstler
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William Kunstler
c. 1989
Born
William Moses Kunstler
July 7, 1919
New York City
, New York, U.S.
Died
September 4, 1995 (aged 76)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education
Yale University
Columbia University
Occupation
Lawyer,
civil rights
activist
Spouse(s)
Lotte Kunstler
Margaret Ratner
Children
4, including
Emily
William Moses Kunstler
(July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was an American lawyer and
civil rights
activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven.
[1]
Kunstler was an active member of the
National Lawyers Guild
, a board member of the
American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) and the co-founder of the
Law Center for Constitutional Rights
(CCR), the "leading gathering place for radical lawyers in the country."
[2]
Kunstler's defense of the
Chicago Seven
from 1969 to 1970 led
The New York Times
to label him "the country's most controversial and, perhaps, its best-known lawyer".
[2]
Kunstler is also well known for defending members of the
Revolutionary Communist Party
,
Catonsville Nine
,
Black Panther Party
,
Weather Underground Organization
, the
Attica Prison rioters
, and the
American Indian Movement
.
[2]
He also won a
de facto
segregation
case regarding the
District of Columbia
's public schools and "disinterred, singlehandedly" the concept of federal criminal
removal jurisdiction
in the 1960s.
[2]
Kunstler refused to defend right-wing groups such as the
Minutemen
, on the grounds that: "I only defend those whose goals I share. I'm not a lawyer for hire. I only defend those I love."
[2]
He was a polarizing figure; many on the right wished to see him disbarred, while many on the left admired him as a "symbol of a certain kind of radical lawyer."
[2]
Even some other civil rights lawyers regarded Kunstler as a "publicity hound and a hit-and-run lawyer" who "brings cases on Page 1 and the
N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, Inc.
wins them on Page 68."
[2]
Legal writer
Sidney Zion
quipped that Kunstler was "one of the few lawyers in town who knows how to talk to the press. His stories always check out and he's not afraid to talk to you, and he's got credibility—although you've got to ask sometimes, 'Bill, is it
really
true?'"
[2]