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  1. William Moses Kunstler (July 7, 1919 – September 4, 1995) was an American attorney and civil rights activist, known for defending the Chicago Seven. [1]

  2. Jul 3, 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.

  3. 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...

  4. 'Radical Lawyer' William Kunstler dies at age 76. September 4, 1995. From Correspondent Brian Jenkins. NEW YORK (CNN) -- A law partner says William Kunstler died of cardiac arrest after a...

  5. 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. During his career, he defended the Freedom Riders, Chicago 8, the Attica Prison rioters, the American Indian Movement, and many other groups that he felt had been wrongly prosecuted and ...

  6. 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.

  7. William Kunstler (1919-1995) was one of the best known civil rights attorneys in the United States. His most famous trial was his defense of the Chicago Seven who were charged with conspiracy to commita riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

  8. Sep 5, 1995 · William Kunstler, the lawyer whose passionate defense of radical causes and political pariahs catapulted him to fame and controversy within the American legal system, died Monday at the age...

  9. Dec 15, 1996 · For 20 years, William Moses Kunstler, the shaman and showman lawyer of the radical left, started his mornings by climbing upstairs to the second floor of his Greenwich Village brownstone,...

  10. Nov 13, 2009 · Lawyer William Kunstler famously took on controversial cases: from radical Abbie Hoffman to mobster John Gotti to Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, Kunstler's clients earned him both praise and loathing.

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