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Oral History of Dwight D. Murray
Index
3M See Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company
3-MAF See Marine Corps
Abscam, 152, 223, 226
Adelman, Roger, 225
Alexander, Harry, 118-19
American College of Trial Lawyers, 226-27, 231-32
American Inns of Court, 152-53, 157, 159-60, 162, 165, 208, 222-24, 261
William Bryant Inn of Court, 153, 157, 218, 225
Arent Fox, 218
Arnold & Porter, 218
attorney discipline, 211, 223
Bacon, Sylvia, 213
Bar Association of the District of Columbia (BADC), 206-07, 210-11, 223-24
African Americans/racial discrimination, 206
integration, 207
Berrigan, Father Philip, 21-23, 42
Korean War, 20, 21, 64
Vietnam, 21
Braman, Leonard, 122, 195-98, 202
Brown v. Board of Education, 41
Bryant, William, 47, 153, 218, 224, 225
Courthouse Annex, 157
See also American Inns of Court
Bucklin, Don, 227
Bunker, Archie, 44
Burger, Warren, 157, 218
Cacheris, Plato, 159, 223, 224
Cannon, Jonathan, 202
Carr Jordon Coyne & Savits, 118-20, 125-26, 199
Carr Maloney (formerly Carr, Goodson, Lee), 201
Carr, Larry, 211, 214
Central City Park, 13, 37, 40
Civil Rights Act, 10, 36
Clinton, Bill, 46, 213
Clinton, Hillary, 46
Closing Arguments (Stein), 204
Cohn, Sherman, 105, 107, 159, 218, 223, 224
Connor, Janice, 227
Continuing Legal Education (CLE), 126
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Coyne, Mike, 200
Curtis, George, 187
D.C. Law Students in Court, 113
discrimination, 36, 43, 48, 206
District of Columbia Bar, 206, 208-12, 223
District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 142, 193-94, 2103
Dunford, Joseph, 51
Fahy, Charles, 218
Fifth Streeters, 151
Flagel, Frank, 103, 107
Gardner, Father, 28
Gasch, Oliver, 228
Georgetown Law, 4, 21, 54, 59-60, 62, 102-05, 115, 119, 129, 145, 159, 161, 165, 218, 223, 235,
239
campus, 100-01
clinical programs, 113-15, 134, 136, 141-42, 163
draft deferment, 54
endowment, 161
reunion, 239
student body, 102
Gesell, Gerhard, 132-33, 143-44
Gilliot, Mrs., 42
Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 213
Goldstein on Trial Techniques (Goldstein, Lane and Lane), 136, 141
Gray, Pamela, 122
Greene, Henry, 123
Hamilton, Eugene, 170
Henry VI Part 2 (Shakespeare), 234
Hinckley, John, 225-26
Ho Chi Minh, 82, 95
Hughes, Langston, 221
Jim Crow, 37
Jones Day, 158
Jones, Doug, 219
Jordan Coyne & Savits, 127
Jordan, Jim, 200, 202
Kelly, John, 51
Kennedy, Robert, 49
King, Martin Luther, 49, 52
King, Rufus, 197
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Lake Pontchartrain, 11, 38, 69
Leibowitz, Sam, 153-54, 220, 222
Lewers, Chris (son-in-law), 184
Lewinsky, Monica, 159, 223
Link, Myles, 208
Long, David, 111
Lopata, Ed, 200
Lucas, Russ, 109
Marine Corps, 4, 14, 21-23, 37, 49, 51-53, 55, 66, 68, 70, 72, 76,-78, 96, 99, 101, 104, 128, 186
Marines Third Division Marine Amphibious Force, 87
Marshall, Thurgood, 214
Mattis, James, 51
McGovern, George, 46
McGowan, Jerry, 109
McManus, Father Eugene (“Father Mac”), 28, 42
Mencher, Bruce, 123
Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M), 113, 166, 167, 170, 171, 173
Mitchell, Gerry, 203
Mitchell, Glenn, 209
Mueller, Robert, 50-51
Mundy, Ken, 123
Murphy, Tim, 110, 116- 25, 128-29, 152, 191-98, 202, 235
Marine Corps Reserve, 191
Murray, Bernice Cagnolatti (mother), 1
Murray, Dwight D. – Personal
Basics School, 66-67, 70-73, 75, 85, 97-98
Bayou Boys’ State, 2-3, 31
pursue a legal career, 3
Boy Scouts, 8, 12-15, 30, 33-34, 85
brother, 4-5, 39
Vietnam, 55, 78
brother-in-law, 22
childhood, 7-8
Choctaw Indian tribes, 4
civil rights movement, 11, 12, 42, 60
Corpus Christi, 1
D.C. Law Students in Court, 113
District of Columbia segregation, 218-19
FSR (First Marine Logistics Group), 85
Georgetown Law, 4, 21, 59-60, 62, 102-05, 115, 119, 129, 145, 159, 165, 218, 223, 235
campus, 100-01
clinical programs, 113-15, 134, 136, 141-42, 163
draft deferment, 54
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endowment, 161
reunion, 239
student body, 102
Ho Chi Minh Trail, 88
intern, State Department Bureau of Economic Affairs, 3, 57, 59
Marine Corps, 15, 22-25, 39, 55-59, 64, 76, 80-82, 93, 95-96, 99, 104-10, 112, 124, 137, 143,
184-85, 187, 203, 219, 230, 249
Basics School, 66-68, 70-71, 73, 86
discipline, 89, 102
OCS (Marines Office Training School), 4, 54, 66, 68, 70-71, 75, 77, 84-85, 97-98, 108, 175
PFT test (physical fitness test), 68
PRU (Provisional Reconnaissance Units), 100
Student Demonstration Troops, 97
weapons, 70
New Orleans, Louisiana, 1
Pontchartrain Beach, 11, 38
segregation, 11, 13, 30, 44
Okinawa, 83-85, 186
Quantico, 66, 68, 71, 97, 100-01, 108, 174-75
Quantico Hill Trail, 72
school discipline, 17-21, 29, 31, 69
self discipline, 114, 131
Saint Augustine High School, 2, 20, 23, 40
Vietnam, 1, 22-24, 52, 58-59, 68, 73-74, 78, 82-86, 91, 92, 97-102, 106-11, 116, 184-86
Xavier University, 3, 4, 59, 67, 127
Murray, Dwight D. Professional
American College of Trial Lawyers, 226-27, 231
American Inns of Court, 152
Bar Association for the District of Columbia, 206
Officer, 207
CLE programs, 210
Council for Court Excellence, 202
Defense Contract Audit Agency, 117
discovery, 131, 132, 198
Harvard Law, 160
insurance companies, 126, 145
medical malpractice, 121, 125, 151, 162
Mitchell as Of Counsel, 204
National Institute of Trial Advocacy, 164
Navy Court of Military Review, 117
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner, 203, 232
of Counsel, 204
trial evaluation, 129-31
trial techniques, 152
cross-examination, 32, 123224, 136-37, 141-43, 153, 157, 160, 164, 219, 228, 230
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leading questions, 142
witness control, 113, 131, 141-42
Murray, Elodie (wife), 3, 60, 108, 174, 176, 181, 183, 189, 214
Catholic, 177
Medjugorje, 177
Veterans Administration, 61, 66, 91, 174
Murray, Maria (daughter), 178-79, 181-82, 186
marine biology, 178
Scripps Institute of Oceanography, 179, 186
Murray, Michele (daughter), 1, 91, 175-76, 177-78, 184-85, 188-89, 191, 201, 241-42
Holy Cross College Vice President, 178
Oakcrest Girls’ School, 177
university education, 177
Murray, Patrick, 170
Murray, Robert Walthall (father), 1
Army Corps of Engineers, 6
Great Depression, 8
Merchant Marines, 5
NAACP, 154, 220-21
National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA), 165
non-violence, 41
Obama, Barack, 50
Outliers (Gladwell), 241
Perez, Leander, 42
PLC law program (Marine Corps Leader’s Class), 57, 58, 69
plea bargaining, 123, 159-60
Pontchartrain Lake, 11, 38
Quantico, 66, 68, 71, 97, 100-01, 108, 174-75
Quantico Hill Trail, 72
racial bigotry and hatred, 44-45
Reno, Janet, 212, 214
Rhett, Father, 28
Rhyne, Charles, 207
Robeson, Paul, 155, 221
Robinson, Aubrey, 206
role models, 213
Rummel, Archbishop Joseph, 42
Sacco Venzetti trial, 220
Saint Augustine High School, 2, 20, 23, 40
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Scottsboro trial, 153-54, 157, 220-21, 224
segregation, 12, 41, 97
Silbert, Earl, 226
Smithsonian Institution, 180
Socratic method, 106-07
Stein Mitchell Beato & Missner, 215, 256
Stein, Jake, 168, 214-7, 223, 236
Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 114, 121, 129, 132, 193, 197, 209
Time (magazine), 26
Times Picayune (newspaper), 43
Trump, Donald, 46, 49-51
U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 210
Uniform Commercial Code (UCC), 140, 151
Verrett, Father Joseph, 16, 28
Washington Lawyer, 211
Washington Post, 194
Watergate, 49, 152, 223, 226
Weisberg, Frederick, 122
Williams & Connolly, 153, 218, 226
Women’s Bar Association, 207
Wood v. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (case), 166
World War II, 1, 5, 22, 64, 68, 94-95, 175, 186, 228, 229
Wright, J. Skelly, 41
Younger, Irving, 135-36