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William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was an American attorney 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 Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the ...
Sep 5, 1995 · William M. Kunstler, the gravel-voiced radical lawyer whose wild hair seemed to symbolize his distrust of government and his kinship with unpopular people and causes, died yesterday. He was...
May 10, 2024 · William Kunstler was an American lawyer who was a flamboyant left-wing attorney known for defending a number of controversial clients in high-profile cases. He gained national renown during the trial of the "Chicago Seven" on charges of having conspired to incite riots in Chicago during the 1968
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Deemed simultaneously a “great American hero” and “the most hated lawyer in America,” William M. Kunstler did not pursue law planning to become an advocate for civil rights. Born in 1919 to a middle-class Jewish family in the Upper West Side of New York City, Kunstler attended Yale University (1941) before serving in the Army Signal ...
(deceased) Search all inductees. “I only defend those whose goals I share. I’m not a lawyer for hire. I only defend those I love.” William Kunstler was an avid defender of civil rights in America, and earned a reputation by defending some of the most high-profile cases in the 20th Century.
Sep 2, 1994 · Sept. 2, 1994 12 AM PT. TIMES STAFF WRITER. NEW YORK — As he drove down a darkened highway into Manhattan one night, William M. Kunstler clicked on the radio and learned that he was dead. “The...
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Biography of William Kunstler. Eventually called both a "great American hero" and "the most hated lawyer in America," William M. Kunstler was born in New York in 1919, the oldest of three children in a middle-class Jewish family that lived on Central Park West on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
