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INDEX
Ahern, Gerald, 200
American Bar Association, 94–95, 101, 135
Criminal Justice Section, 94, 141, 199
Special Committee on Criminal Justice, 129
Standards on Prosecution Function and Defense Function, 45, 136–38
Americans for Democratic Action (ADA), 62
Amnesty International America, 202
apartheid, 210
Areen, Judith, 216
Atlantic City, New Jersey, 12, 19, 23
Babcock, Barbara, 123
Baker, Howard, 148, 149, 156, 157, 159–60, 162–63, 166–67, 170
and Dean, 165–66
and Nixon, 160–61, 164
Bannet, Aaron, 65
Bar Association of Moscow, 204
Bazelon, David, 119–21, 134, 136, 138, 139
behavioral sciences, 120–22
Bellow, Gary, 122, 123
Bellows, Charles, 133
Bennett, Richard K., 113, 114, 116
BIBSYS (Bibliographic System), 151–53
Blackmun, Harry, 117
Blair, Tony, 200–201
Blank, Sam, 72, 73
Blank, Victor, 62–63, 71
Blank & Rudenko, 63, 71–72, 98
Bloody Sunday, 198, 200, 217
Bork, Robert, 180
Botha, Pieter Willem, 213
Brennan, William J., 119, 133–34, 138
Brown, Ernest, 27, 28–29
Burger, Warren, 45, 134, 136–37, 138–40
Bush, George H. W., 181
Butterfield, Alexander P., 179
Cacharis, Plato, 193
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Carey, John, 198
Carswell, G. Harrold, 139
Carville, James, 190–91
Casner, James, 30
Cavers, David F., 32, 40, 44–45, 46
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 161, 169
Chaffee, John H., 29
Chalidze, Valery, 208–209
Chicago Crime Commission, 41–43
Chicago Tribune, 43
Chief Counsel (Dash), 166–68
Chile
human rights violations, 201–202
Supreme Court of, 202
Church, Frank, 4
Clark, Joseph, 50, 53, 58
Clark, Tom C., 91
Clinton, William J., 184, 188, 191, 192, 195
Cohen, Mickey, 78–82
Cohen, Ray, 98–99, 101–104, 140
Cohn, Roy, 47–49
Committee to Re-elect the President (CREEP), 158
Communist threats, 47–48
Congress, U. S., 174–75, 176–77, 218
and Chile, 202
and Independent Counsel law, 182–83
Cox, Archibald, 30, 162, 174, 175–76, 178, 179–80
crime, organized, 58–59, 108
wiretapping and, 59–60
Crumlish, James C., 71
D’Amato, Alfonse M., 176
Dash, Abraham, 4–5, 13, 15
Dash, Harold, 4, 9–10, 11, 13, 15
Dash, Jeannette, 6
Dash, Judi, 64
Dash, Raymond, 5, 13
Dash, Ruth, 6
Dash, Samuel – Personal
Anti-Defamation League of Philadelphia regional chairman, 26
Army Air Force, 6, 12, 15–16, 19–21
B-29 training, 21, 23
battle ribbons, 20
bombardier training, 16–18, 19
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discharge, 22–23
gunnery school, 18–19
aviation interests, 2–3
birth, 3
B’nai Brith activities, 26
Central High School, 7, 14, 15, 23
criminal law interest, 31, 33, 39
daughters, 7–8
engagement, 23–24
family travel, 9, 11–12
father, 1–2, 3, 9, 11
GI bill, 24
grandparents, 3
Harvard Law School, 9, 24
admission to, 27–29
class members, 29–30
criminal law, 33, 37–38, 39
Legal Aid Bureau, 32–33, 34–35
professors, 30–31
Record, 28, 31–32
Voluntary Defenders program, 32, 34–36, 39
jobs, 9–11, 13
law school interest, 14
mother, 1, 2, 3, 11
Philadelphia Free Library, 10–11, 13
poetry of, 6–8, 13, 21–22
reading interests, 2
reform activities, 14–15, 26
religion, 9, 25–26
romanticism of, 7, 8, 14–15
Safeties captain, 6, 14
siblings, 2, 3, 4–6, 8
See also individual names.
Sulzberger Junior High School, 6, 14
Temple University, 13, 24, 27–28, 29, 30
wife. See Dash, Sara Goldhirsch
Dash, Samuel – Professional
at Appellate Section of Criminal Division of Justice Department, 44–45, 46–50, 83
and bankruptcy law, 72
on Board of Governors of the National Association of District Attorneys, 74
Carville debate, 190–91
Chairman of Board of the Public Defender Association, 121–24, 141
Chairman of the Criminal Justice Section of the American Bar Association, 94, 141, 199
Chicago Crime Commission research, 40–43, 107
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Chief Counsel, 166–68
Chief Counsel for Senate Watergate Committee, 135, 172, 175–76
and computer use, 150–53, 178
and Dean, 135, 164–66, 173–74, 178–79
defining role of committee, 156–58
and Ervin, 144, 145, 146–48, 149, 151, 159, 162–63, 165, 166–67, 170, 178, 180
information gathering, 154–56
procedure, 159–60
selection for, 144–48
staff selection, 149–50, 154
chief of Appeals Division of Philadelphia District Attorney, 50–53
on congressional committees, 174–77
consultant on ABA standards, 45, 136–38
“Cracks in the Foundation of Criminal Justice” article, 43–44
Dash & Levy law firm, 98, 104–108, 110
Teamsters representation, 5, 98–104
Director of Georgetown Law Center’s Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, 116–17,
118–19, 121, 125–26, 128–30
Director of the Judicial Conference for Mental Health Law, 120–21
The Eavesdroppers, 59, 74, 75, 76–78, 84–86, 87–89, 92–93, 97
on empirical research, 117–18, 126–27, 129–31, 141
First Assistant Philadelphia District Attorney, 53–56
Ford Foundation consultant, 117–18
founder of National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 124–25, 132–34, 135–36, 141
independent advisor to Whitewater investigation, 184–90
and Lewinsky case, 192–96
on Independent Counsel law, 178–84, 191
International League for Human Rights involvement
In Chile, 201–202
in Northern Ireland, 198–201, 217–18
“Justice Denied: A Challenge to Lord Widgery’s Report on Bloody Sunday,” 200, 217–18
and Mandela, 210–17
article on, 213–14, 216
partner with Blank & Rudenko, 71–73, 98
PCCA Director, 109–16
and Philadelphia Bar, 51–52
Philadelphia District Attorney, 53, 56–59
and ethics, 62–63
and organized crime, 59–60
and the press, 68–69
and Silver family scandal, 63–71
private practice, 73, 98, 104–108, 110
abortion ring case, 105–106
professor at Georgetown Law School, 89, 134–35, 140–43, 145
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and legal ethics, 132, 134–35, 141
students, 142–43
professor at Rutgers University, 118
professor at University of Puerto Rico Law School, 202–203
on prosecutor’s role, 45
and Roy Cohn, 48–49
salaries, 44–45, 51
in South Africa, 209–213
in Soviet Union, 202–209
teaching fellowship at Northwestern University, 40–44
and wiretapping, 59–60, 63, 72–77, 99
book on, 59, 74, 75, 76–78, 84–86, 87–89, 92–93, 97
and Mickey Cohen, 78–82
testimony on, 87
Dash, Sara Goldhirsh, 6–7, 8, 22, 23, 27, 28, 47, 50, 118, 133, 146, 193, 215
activities of, 24–25, 29, 40, 184–85
family of, 25
and Frankfurter, 83
and Griswold, 31–32
religion of, 25–26
in Soviet Union, 203, 204–205
Dash & Levy law firm, 98, 104–108, 110
Dean, John, 135, 156, 159, 160–61, 162, 168, 172, 178–79
immunity for, 164–66, 173–74
Dean, Maureen (“Mo”), 165
Dean, Paul, 116–17, 118
DeGioia, John J., 215
Dilworth, Richard, 50–51, 53, 58, 59, 60, 62
discrimination, 9, 26
Dorr, John, 178, 188
Dorsen, David, 154
Eastland, James, 139
The Eavesdroppers (Dash), 59, 74, 75, 76–78, 84–86, 87–89, 92–93, 97
Edmonston, Rufus, 144–45
electronic surveillance. See wiretapping
Ellington Army Air Force Base, 17
Erdahl, Robert, 46, 48, 96
Erlichman, John, 155, 159, 161, 173, 178
Ervin, Sam, 150, 157, 160, 161, 164, 174, 176
and Dash, 144, 145, 146–48, 149, 151, 159, 162–63, 165, 166–67, 170, 178, 180
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 58–59, 74, 88, 102
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and electronic surveillance, 89–90, 92
and Miranda, 129
and Watergate investigation, 153–54
Federal Communications Act, 87
Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 83–84
Fifth Amendment, 103, 105, 127, 153, 164, 175, 194
Fisher, Adrian “Butch,” 145
Food Fair Stores, Inc., 63, 64, 67
Ford Foundation, 114, 116–17, 119, 130, 131, 132, 136, 137
Gray Areas Program, 108–109, 111, 112, 116
Fourth Amendment, 87, 90, 91, 140
Frankfurter, Felix, 82–83, 93
Freeh, Louis, 90
Freund, Paul, 30
Friedman, Abraham, 109, 112
Fund for the Republic
and wiretapping study, 63, 72–73, 85
Georgetown Law Center, 131, 215, 216
clinical education, 36–37
Institute of Criminal Law and Procedure, 116–17, 118–19, 121, 125–26, 128–30
Ginsburg, William H., 192
Gleuck, Eleanor, 33
Glueck, Sheldon, 33, 37
Goldstone, Richard, 210
Graham, Billy, 80
Gray, William, 66
Green, Harold, 123–24
Green, William J., Jr., 60–62, 71
Griswold, Erwin, 29, 30, 31–32, 34–35, 39, 50
Griswold, Harriet, 32
Gurney, Edward J., 163, 166
Haldeman, H. R. “Bob,” 149, 155, 159, 161, 173, 178, 179
Hall, Livingston, 37
Halperin, Milton, 65, 69
Hamilton, James, 154
Hand, Learned, 47–48, 49, 78
Harmony, Sally, 155–56
Harrison, Gladys, 120
Harvard Law School, 130, 131
criminal law, 33, 37–38, 39
Legal Aid Bureau, 32–33, 34–35
Voluntary Defenders program, 32, 34–36, 39
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Head Start, 116
Hennings, Thomas C., 85, 86
Higby, Lawrence M., 179
Hitler, Adolf, 15
Hoeveler, William, 29
Hoffa, Jimmy, 98, 101, 103, 127, 140
Hogan, Frank, 78, 137
Hollingsworth, Wilbur, 34, 35
Hoover, J. Edgar, 49, 58, 74, 92, 93
Hostetler, Zona F., 120
House Judiciary Committee, 188, 195
Hunt, E. Howard, 168, 171, 172, 179
Hyde, Henry, 195–96
Imbau, Fred E., 40, 132
Independent Counsel statute
genesis of, 178–80
history of, 181–84
and Whitewater investigation, 187–89
Inouye, Daniel K., 167
International League for Human Rights, 217
Chile, 201–202
Northern Ireland, 198–201
Soviet Union, 203
Intourist, 204, 207, 208
Iran/Contra Matters, 177, 181–82
Israel, 203
Judaism, 25–26
in Soviet Union, 203–205
Justice Department, U.S., 94–96, 99, 125
Criminal Division, 44–47, 50, 83
and Watergate investigation, 171, 172–75
Kamisar, Yale, 129
Keating Five Case, 191
Kennedy, Edward, 148, 210–11
Kennedy, Robert, 5, 98, 99, 102, 103, 108
KGB, 204–206, 209
King, Martin Luther, 93
Kleindienst, Richard, 29
Knowlton, Robert E., 76
Koornhof, Piet, 214
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Lacritz, Robert, 154
Leach, W. Barton, 30
Lefstein, Norman, 123
Lenzner, Terry, 147, 154
Levanthal, Harold, 139
Levy, J. Brem, 98, 110
Lewinsky, Monica, 185, 192–94
Library of Congress, 150, 151
Liddy, G. Gordon, 155, 156, 168, 170, 171, 172
Lipset, Hal, 99–100
Littleton, Arthur, 86
Los Angeles Police Department, 78–80, 81
Magruder, Jeb, 162, 173
Mandela, Nelson
and Dash, 211–17
daughters, 216–17
Georgetown honorary degree, 215
imprisonment, 210–11
as president, 215–16
release of, 214
Mandela, Winnie, 214–15
McBride, Thomas D., 60, 66–67, 68, 70
McCarthy, David J., 125
McCarthy, Joseph, 47
McClellan Committee, 98, 101, 103
McCord, James, 168, 169–71, 173
McDermott, Tom, 56–57, 58
McKusick, Vincent L., 29
McNamara, Robert, 151
Meese, Edwin, III, 181
Mentschikoff, Soia, 31
Miller, Burt, 126
Miranda decision, 127–29
Mitchell, George, 200
Mitchell, John N., 94–95, 152, 155
Moore, Cecil, 110–11
Muse, Robert, 154, 193
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 110
National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, 124–25, 132–33
National Association of Lawyers in Criminal Cases. See National Association of Criminal
Defense Lawyers
National Institute for Rehabilitation of Criminal Offenders, 209–10
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National Institute of Mental Health, 125
Nazis, 15
New York Times’ Sunday Magazine, 213, 214, 216
Nixon, Richard M., 139, 149, 155, 158, 162, 167, 168, 172
and Baker, 160–61, 164
impeachment, 188
subpoenaed, 180
Watergate tapes, 178–80
Norden bomb sight, 17, 20
North, Oliver, 178
North City Congress of Blacks, 114–15, 116
Northern Ireland
Bloody Sunday, 198, 200
civil rights march, 197–98
IRA, 200, 201
Saville tribunal, 201
Widgery tribunal, 198–200
Odle, Robert, 158
O’Donovan, Leo J., 215
Ogletree, Charles, 36
Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968, Title III of, 88–89, 90, 94, 95, 101
Opportunities Industrialization Centers of America (OICA), 113, 115
Paradis, Donald E., 34, 35
Parker, William H., 78, 79, 81
Parton, Edward Grady, 140
Pennsylvania Bar Endowment, 73, 86
Pennsylvania court system, 52, 59, 104
Perlman, Philip B., 47, 48
Petersen, Henry, 172
Peterson, Virgil, 42
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
abortions in, 64–67, 70–71, 105–106
corruption in criminal justice system, 104–108
drug-related crimes, 56–57
organized crime, 58–60
undercover stings, 57–58
Philadelphia Bulletin, 64, 66, 68–69, 100
Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement (PCCA), 108, 109, 111–12, 115–16
Philadelphia Inquirer, 55, 69
Pinochet, Augusto, 201
Pollsmoor Prison, 211, 213, 216
Popkin, Alice, 120
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President’s Committee on Juvenile Delinquency and Youth Crime, 108
Prettyman Fellows Program, 117
Prosser, William L., 30–31
Public Defender Service, 121–24, 127
“Queen for a Day” immunity, 164, 193
Reagan, Ronald, 126, 167, 181
Refusniks, 203, 204, 205, 207
Remington, William, 47–49
Reno, Janet, 129
Richardson, Elliot L., 180
Rogosheske, Walter F., 137
Rosenberg, Bea, 46
Ruckelshaus, William D., 180
Safe Streets Act. See Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968
Sakharov, Andrei, 203, 208
San Francisco Chronicle, 75
San Francisco Examiner, 75
Saville tribunal, 201
Shaffer, Charles, 164–65, 173
Schwartz, Richard F., 76
Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Affairs. See Senate Watergate Committee
Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights, 82, 84, 86–87
Senate Whitewater Committee, 176–77, 184–90
and Lewinsky case, 192–96
Senate Watergate Committee
bipartisanship of investigation, 160–62, 166, 169–71
burglary as impetus for committee creation, 170–71
computer use, 150–53, 178
and Dean, 164–66, 173–74
final report, 162–63
media and, 158
public information function, 157–58, 166, 176–77
selection of chief counsel, 144–47
selection of committee members, 148
sentencing phase of, 168–69
and tapes, 178–80
Silver, Doris Jean, 64–65, 67
Silver, Edward, 85
Silver family, 63–71
Sirica, John, J., 148, 168–69, 171, 180, 188
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, 209
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South Africa,209–14, 216
Soviet Union, 202–209
courts, 206–207
human rights issues, 206
Jews in, 203–205
KGB, 204–206
Refusniks, 203, 204, 205, 207
Starr, Kenneth W., 182, 183, 184, 185–86, 188, 189–90, 191–92, 193, 194, 195
State Department, U.S., 208–209, 213
Stein, Jacob, 181, 193, 194
Steinberg, Harris, 133
Stevens, Ted, 29
Sturz, Herb, 131
Sullivan, Leon H., 113–14, 115, 116
Supreme Court, 87–88, 95, 117, 175
wiretapping of, 83–84
Sylvan Pool, 72
Tate, James, 109, 116
Teamsters, Local 107, 98–99
Temple University, 13, 24, 27–28, 29, 30, 108, 109, 112
Thompson, Fred, 156–57, 159, 160, 161, 162, 163–64
Thornburgh, Dick, 130
Union Welfare Fund, 101, 104
United States Attorney’s Office, 173–74
University of Michigan Law Review, 85
Vaus, James A., 79–80
Vera Institute of Justice, 131–32
Voluntary Defenders. See Public Defender Service
Vorenberg, James, 175
Wallace, Mike, 81
Walsh, Lawrence E., 177, 181–82
Warren, Earl, 40, 127, 129
Watergate investigation. See Senate Watergate Committee
Weicher, Lowell, 149–50, 166
Weinberg, Wendy, 126
Whitewater investigation. See Senate Whitewater Committee
Why I Quit Syndicated Crime, 79-80
Widgery, John Passmore, 198–200
Williams, Edward Bennett, 85, 88, 133, 137–38
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wiretapping, 59–60, 74
federal, 92–93
Fund for the Republic study on, 63, 72–73, 85
hearings on, 82, 84
history of, 75–76
and law enforcement, 87
law on, 86
with probable cause and warrant, 90–92, 94, 95–96
and recordings, 100–101
of Supreme Court, 83–84
symposium on, 85
telephone company and, 86
unreliability of, 89
victims of, 79–82
Witness to Bloody Sunday, 217
Wolf Block law firm, 44, 46, 66
writ of prohibition, 104
Young Presidents Association, 208
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Oral History of Samuel Dash
CASES CITED
Ashcraft v. Tennessee, 322 U.S. 143 (1944), 84
Berger v. New York, 388 U.S. 41, 52 (1967), 91
Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335 (1963), 123
Katz v. United States, 389 U.S. 347 (1967), 88
Lopez v. United States, 373 U.S. 427 (1963), 88
Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436 (1966), 127–29
Olmstead v. United States, 277 U.S. 438 (1928), 87, 88, 94
Silverman v. United States, 365 U.S. 505 (1961), 88
United States v. Remington, 191 F.2d 246 (2d Cir. 1951), 47–48, 52
United States v. Remington, 208 F.2d 567 (2d Cir. 1953), 49
United States v. United States District Court, 407 U.S. 297 (1972), 95