Reply #10: A really great man!

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*** 1961-1968 Nominated Assistant Attorney General of United States by President John F. Kennedy, served to 1965;
nominated Deputy Attorney General by President Lyndon B. Johnson, served to 1967;
nominated Attorney General, served to January 20. 1969. ***


A GREAT AMERICAN hero who oversaw the passage of civil rights in a society as racist as ours.


You’ll notice that most who denounce Clark support either the neoconservative policies of Bush or the neoliberal policies Clinton.


Ramsey Clark, John Doar, Robert Kennedy, speaking, Roy Wilkins, Arnold Aronson

During his years at Justice:

In the field:

Supervised federal presence at Ole Miss week following admission of James Meredith;

surveyed all school districts in south desegregating under court order (1963);

supervised federal enforcement of court order protecting march from Selma to Montgomery;

headed Presidential task force to Watts following riots.

In criminal law enforcement:

set aside federal funds to finance creation of state criminal justice coordinating agencies;

sought financing and professionalization for local police;

supervised legislative proposal for and organization of federal Law Enforcement Assistance Administration;

originated Strike Force concept in attack of Organized Crime; increased annual indictment rate of organized crime figures six fold;

urged strict gun control helping secure first federal gun control law in over thirty years;

reorganized and transferred federal narcotics enforcement creating Federal Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs.

In Prisons:

authorized first federal technical assistance to state and local prisons; proposed unified federal corrections merging prison and probation service;

reorganized federal prisons to emphasize rehabilitation, early release, health, education, job training, community based corrections;

opened first federal Halfway House;

closed old prisons, opposed construction of new prisons;

established first federal narcotics addict treatment unit.

In civil rights:

supervised drafting and executive role in passage of Voting Rights Act of 1965 and Civil Rights Act of 1968 containing the first federal open housing law;

argued Johns v. Mayor for US in Supreme Court, first federal open housing case;

authorized first northern school desegregation case;

created massive program for employment and housing discrimination litigation;

authorized prosecution of police in Algiers Motel killing, Orangeburg massacre (South Carolina State College) and police brutality at Chicago Democratic Convention.

In civil liberties:

supervised executive effort at bail reform;

proposed prohibition of wiretapping and electronic surveillance;

required voluntary disclosure of unlawful wiretapping by federal prosecutors in more than 50 cases;

refused to use wiretap authority contained in Safe Streets Act of 1968;

denounced shooting of looters by law enforcement, threatened prosecution;

first Attorney General to propose abolition of the death penalty.

In antitrust enforcement:

filed record number of anti-merger cases (24 in 1968);

opposed ITT acquisition of ABC network;

Penn-Central and Atlantic Richfield-Sinclair mergers;

sued all automobile manufacturers for anti-competition in computer industry.

In judicial function:

supervised executive effort to achieve federal jury selection reform;

urged creation of Federal Judicial Center;

sought expansion of Federal Criminal Justice Act and Neighborhood Legal Services program;

defended controversial Supreme Court decisions such as Miranda v. Arizona.

Since 1968:

Lawyer: General counsel of Alaska Federation of Natives securing largest settlement of native land claims in history.

Lawyer for: Craig Morgan, President of Kent State student government indicted following Kent State tragedy;

Father Philip Berrigan in Harrisburg trial;

Ruchell Magee in Marin Country Courthouse murder-kidnapping indictment;

Charles Pernasalice in Attica prison prosecutions.

Argued, or briefed, first Freedom of Information Act case, various First Amendment, Peace Movement, civil rights and criminal cases in U.S. Supreme Court.

Worked on numerous commissions:

Chairman, Right to Vote Task Force, issuing report THAT ALL MAY VOTE urging Universal Voter Enrollment by the government;

Chairman of Citizens Inquiry on Parole and Criminal Justice, Inc. reporting on parole in New York.

Individually and on behalf of various organizations, sought to end political repression, violation of human rights, torture and violence in international area by seeking protection for Soviet Jewry, abuse of prisoners in Brazil, Greece, Ireland, Spain and elsewhere;

traveled to South Africa to examine and protest apartheid; North Vietnam to examine American bombing, visit U.S. POW's.

Teacher: legal seminars on civil rights planning, law as an effective instrument for social change: Howard University School of Law, Brooklyn Law School.

Writer: Crime in America; The Role of the Supreme Court with Senator Sam J. Ervin, Jr.; contributions to collected works on crime control, peace, civil rights, education, civil liberties, violence, etc. Articles: Foreign Affairs, Saturday Review, Life, Nation, New York Times and others; various law journals and reviews; Dictionary of American History, Great Ideas Today, Encyclopedia Britannica Magazine and others.

General: Traveled in more than 80 foreign nations; lectured at more than 50 universities; testified before U.S. Congress, state legislatures and foreign parliaments and legislative bodies on more than 100 occasions on subjects including international and constitutional law, civil rights, housing, employment, selective service, barriers to voting, Presidential emergency powers, juvenile delinquency, environmental protection, right to travel, crime control, balance of payments, international affairs.

Representative Organizations and Institutions: National Chairman, National Advisory Committee, American Civil Liberties Union; Board of Directors. Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, New School for Social Research; Federal Bar Association (past president); American Judicature Society (past); Jobs for Youth, Amnesty International; Mexican-American Legal Defense Fund; NAACP Legal Defense Fund; Martin Luther King Memorial Center (trustee); Whitney Young, Jr. Foundation; Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights under Law; International Progress Organization.

and of course INTERNATIONAL A.N.S.W.E.R. the BIGGEST anti-war, pro-justice voice out there.