Oral History of Carl Stern

Index

 

60 Minutes (television show), 179, 181-82

 

ABC (television network), 8, 53, 115, 183

Air Force

Air Force One, 149

Thunderbirds, 162-63

Alabama prison, 56

prison conditions case, 118

Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), 171

Ali, Mohammed  See Clay, Cassius

American Law Institute (ALI), 79, 113

Anderson, Jack, 36

Arlen, Harold, 9

Associated Press, 13

AT&T, 44

ATF  See Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms

Azarro. Richard, 94

 

Bacon, Leslie, 36, 70

Bailey, F. Lee, 25-27, 112-13

Ball, Joe, 97

Baltimore Sun (newspaper), 188

Barr, William, 58, 67

Basham, Christie, 80

Bechtel (cases and scandals), 65

Bell, Griffin, 63-64

Belson, James, 69

Berrigan, 38, 114-15, 154

Berrigan trial, 114

Berrigan, Daniel, 114

Berrigan, Philip, 114

Berrigans, 36, 38

Bingaman, Jeff, 107

Bittman, William, 79

Black, Hugo, 91, 128

Blackmun, Harry, 129-30

Blythin, Edwin, 61

Boccardi, Lou, 13

Boland amendments, 89

Bork, Robert, 66-67, 85, 132-33, 143, 156-57

order to fire Archibald Cox, 66-67

See also Saturday Night Massacre

Branch Davidians, 167-73

Brandeis, Louis, 102

Brennan, William, 74-75, 99-100

Bricker, John, 55

Brinkley, David, 33-34, 53

Brokaw, Tom, 123

Browning, Jim, 112

Burgasser, George, 179-80

Burger, Waarren, 100-01, 105-09, 124

Bush v. Gore (case), 131

 

Calvin Klein

underwear ads, 179-80

use of minors, 179

Campbell, Don, 84

Can You Top This (television show), 4

Carter (case), 28

Carter, Billy, 162

Carter, Jimmy, 63, 162

Cassius Clay trial, 115-16

Center for the Study of Responsive Law, 156

Central American Common Market, 151-52

Chalk, Roy, 28

Challenger rocket disaster, 161

Chancellor, John, 50-51, 80, 87

Chandler (case), 145

Cheely, George, 35

Church, Frank, 157

Civiletti, Ben, 64

Claiborne Hardware (case), 121

Clark, Ramsey, 41-42, 47, 53

clear-channel stations, 9

Clinton, Bill, 58-59, 177, 182

CNN, 148

Colson, Danny, 168

Committee to Reelect the President, 54, 79, 94

Connolly, John, 73, 74

Correa, Eddie, 184

Court of General Sessions, 68

Cox, Archibald, 66, 67, 85, 138

Cronkite, Walter, 87

 

D’Alemberte, Sandy, 145

Daily News (newspaper), 7, 183

Davey, Jim, 78

Davis Polk, 92

Davis, Oscar, 159

Dean, John, 93, 96

DeLoach, Deke, 41

Denniston, Lyle, 188

Dewey, Tom, 16

DiSalle, Mike, 31

Douglas, William, 61, 101, 109, 124-26

Edelstein, David, 143

Ehrlichman, John, 76-77, 81, 98, 127

Ellsberg, Daniel, 75, 77

Ervin, Sam, 96

Falwell, Jerry, 72

FBI, 37-38, 41-42, 45-46, 86, 114, 153-60, 167-70, 172-74, 177, 180-81

black bag jobs, 159

Strategic Information and Operations Center (SIOC), 169

Federal Trade Commission, 97

Fielding, Lewis, 77

Flynt, Larry, 71, 72

Ford, Gerald, 63, 65-66, 142-43

Foreman, Percy, 116

Foster, Sheila, 180

Foster, Vince, 180-81

Freedom of Information Act, 152, 156, 161-63

Freedom of Information Act requests, 131

Friday, Herschel, 91

 

Gaddafi, Muammar, 162

Galt, Eric Starvo  See Ray, James Earl

Garrison, Jim, 116

George Washington University, 123, 141, 186

Gerber, Sam, 26

Gesell, Gerhard, 72, 75-76

Ginsburg, Ruth Bader, 62

Glanzer, Sy, 84

Glenn, John, 22

Goldberg, Arthur, 51

Goldstein, Abe, 62

Goodwin, Guy, 36-37

Gore, Al, 177-78

Gowdy, Kirk, 81

Graham, Fred, 53

Grand Rapids School District v. Ball (case), 103-04

Gray, Pat, 155

Green, Joyce, 72

Greene, Harold, 68, 91

Greenhouse, Linda, 23, 166, 188

Griesa,  Thomas, 157

Grove City College, 45

Guinier, Lani, 182-84

 

Hakim, Albert, 90

Halberstam, David, 80

Haldeman, H. R., 81

Halik, Tony, 152

Hall, Fawn, 89

Harlan, John, 91, 128

Hearst, Patricia (Patty), 111-14

Here and Now (radio show), 13

Heymann, Phil, 181

Hilton, Conrad, 189

Hinckley (case), 111

Hinckley, John, 109-11

Hoffa, Jimmy, 117

Holly Farms v. NLRB (case), 123

Holt, Harold, 149

Hoover, J. Edgar, 37-39, 55, 114, 155

Hubbell, Web, 59-60, 165-66

Huff, Dick, 162

Hunt, Dorothy, 80

Hunt, Howard, 76, 78, 93-94

Huntley-Brinkley Report (television news show), 22, 33

Hustler (magazine), 71-72

 

IBM antitrust case, 117-18, 143-44

Iran Contra, 57, 68, 89-90, 92

Irons, Peter, 146

ITT, 56

 

Jackson Heights, 1, 3-4

Jaworski, Leon, 27, 138

Job Corps, 22

Johnson, Frank, 118

Johnson, Lady Bird, 47-48

radio station ownership, 52

road beautification program, 53

Johnson, Lucy, 47

Johnson, Lyndon (LBJ), 36, 41, 47-48, 50-52, 127, 149-51

El Salvador, 151

Johnson, Norma Holloway, 161

Jones, Nathaniel, 121

Joy, 32, 47, 190

 

Kalugin, Oleg, 13

Katzenbach, Nicholas, 41

Kavanaugh, Brett, 60

Keith (case), 128

Kennedy, Edward, 22, 32-33, 73, 116-17, 154, 174

Kilgallen, Dorothy, 61

King, Martin Luther, 32, 37, 41

assassination, 51

Kirkpatrick, Miles, 97

Kissinger, Henry, 38, 114

Klain, Ron, 182

Kleindienst, Richard, 56

Koppel, Ted, 183-84

Koresh, David, 168-69, 170-72

Korff, Baruch, 96

Krislov, Moses, 118

 

Laemmle, Karl, 2-3

Landau, Jack, 34

Lani, 182-84

“Quota Queen”, 185

Leinbaugh, Bud, 38, 86

Levi Guidelines, 62, 157

Levi, Edward, 62, 63

Lewinsky, Monica, 58, 189-90

Lewis, Anthony, 188

Liddy, G. Gordon, 54, 76-77, 79, 81-82, 93

Life (magazine), 16

Lillie, Mildred, 91

 

Margolis, Lawrence, 70

Marshall, Thurgood, 130

McAlister, Elizabeth, 114

McCord, James, 79, 93-94

McCurdy, Merle, 121

McNamara, Robert, 49-50

McNaughton rule, 110

Medsger, Betty, 154

Meese, Edwin, 65-66

Metcalfe, Dan, 162

Mikva, Abner, 159

Miller, Ray, 31

Mills, C. Wright, 11

Miranda (case), 124

Mitchell, John, 34, 41, 53-57, 81, 86

Mitchell, Martha, 54

Moore, Richard, 86

Morland, Howard, 119

Morrison, Alan, 156

Moyers, Bill, 87

Mueller, Robert, 57, 59

Murphy, Betty, 71

Murrow, Edward R., 13, 50

Muskie, Edmund, 81

 

NAACP, 121, 182

Nader, Ralph, 156

National Guard, 51

National Institute of Trial Advocacy (NITA), 190

National Labor Relations Act of 1935, 123

NBC (radio and television stations), 8, 21, 23, 33, 41, 50, 84, 87, 97, 99, 104, 115, 118, 124, 140-41, 149, 151, 161, 165

NBC Inc., et al. v. DOJ  (case), 161

Neustadt, Richard, 11

New Mobilization Committee Against the War (The New Mobe), 70

New York Times, 6, 7, 23, 77, 127, 151, 154, 166, 183, 188

Newsweek (magazine), 7, 74

Nicaraguan Contras, 89

Nightline (television show), 148, 183, 184

Nixon, Richard, 27, 54, 56-57, 85, 96, 98-99, 128, 138

administration, 36, 97, 127

North, Oliver, 76, 89-90

 

O’Connor, Sandra Day, 129, 146

O’Brien, Tim, 53

 

Parker, Barrington, III, 156-58

Paster, Howard, 183

Pauling, Linus, 11

Pearson, Drew, 71

Pentagon Papers, 75-77

Pentagon Papers (case), 72

Pike Committee, 157

Pike, Otis, 157

Pinto (case), 118, 142-43

Plesser, Ron, 156

Poindexter, John, 90

Port Gibson (case), 118, 120-21, 123

Potts, Larry, 168

Powell, Lewis, 127, 128

Privacy Act, 160

 

Ray, James Earl, 41-43

alias Eric Starvo Galt, 41

fingerprint records, 43

Reagan, Ronald, 65, 90-91, 147

assassination attempt, 109-10

Reagan Administration, 89

Reasoner, Harrry, 87

Rehnquist, William, 128-29

Reno, Janet, 59, 165-66, 170, 172-76, 178-79, 188

Rhodes, James, 30

Richard, Mark, 166-67

Richardson, Elliott, 60, 66, 85, 156

resignation, 57

Richey, Charles, 161

Richmond Times Dispatch, 127

Rockefeller, Jay, 22

Roe v. Wade (case), 129-30

Rooney, John, 38

Rothblatt, Henry, 79-80

Ruby Ridge, 168

Ruckelshaus, Bill, 66, 85, 156

resignation, 57

Ruff, Charles, 189

Rusk, Dean, 35, 50

Russo, Anthony, 77

 

Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC television show), 84

Saturday Night Massacre, 156

Saxbe, William, 60-62

SBA (Small Business Administration), 160

Scalia, Antonin, 131, 134-35

Scherer Ray, 34

Schroeder, Oliver, 23

Secord, Richard, 90

Seidman, Ricki, 183

Senate Church Committee, 157

Sessions, William, 168, 172

Sevareid, Eric, 87

Shaw, Bernard, 148

Shaw, Clay, 116

Sheppard, Marilyn, 25

Sheppard, Sam, 25-27, 33, 60, 111

Shriver, R. Sargent, 22

Silbert, Earl, 84

SIOC (Strategic Information and Operations Center), 169-72

Sirica, John, 78-79, 83-84, 93-95

“Maximum John”, 94

Smith, William French, 58, 64

Socialist Workers Party (SWP), 157

Souter, David, 100

Stahl, Leslie, 69

Star Spangled Banner, 9

Starr, Alice, 58

Starr, Ken, 58-60, 189

Stephanopoulos, George, 177

Stern, Carl (personal)

birth Sunnyside, Queens, 1

brother, 12

Cleveland, 7,-8, 10, 18-19, 22-23, 25, 27, 29- 33, 43, 111, 140, 190

Cleveland Bar Association, 21

Cleveland Orchestra, 19

Cleveland Plain Dealer (newspaper), 25

Cleveland Playhouse, 19

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, 21, 23

Law Review, 29

study groups, 24

 

Columbia University, 10, 15-16

all male, 14

editor Caliper (literary magazine), 10

interest in politics, 16

“Little Red Schoolhouse”, 16

master’s degree, 18

pre-med, 10, 11

School of Journalism, 12-13, 15, 102

internship with Murrow, Edward R., 13

move to Washington, 35

Stuyvesant High School, 6, 10

thoughts about the whole idea of an independent counsel or special prosecutor, 57

Western Reserve University (now Case Western Reserve ), 22

World War II

air raid drills, 5

memories, 5

Young Republican Club, 16

Stern, Carl (Professional)

ABA, 91, 108, 127, 134, 137-38

Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, 187

American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), 140

Branch Davidians, 167, 171

broadcasting (radio and television), 4, 8-10, 23, 40-41, 53, 63, 106

labor union, 139-40

segue to just TV, 20, 39

Chattanooga jury tampering trial of Jimmy Hoffa, 117

Cointelpro (Counterintelligence Program), 9, 39, 67, 153-54, 158-59

New Left, 155-57

Socialist Workers Disruption Program, 157

D.C. Court Historical Society  See Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit

Department of Justice Department

head of the Office of Public Affairs, 165

economics of the news business, 104

Ervin Committee hearings in the Senate, 84

ethics, 44, 141-42

FOIA (Freedom of Information Act), 131, 148, 152-53, 158-63, 187

George Washington University, 123

ethics programs, 141, 187

teaching, 132

tenure, 186

 

Historical Society of the District of Columbia Circuit, 187

insanity defense, 110-11 See also Hinckley, John

KYW radio, 18

liaison, 42, 175

Hearst trial, 112

Judge Gerhard Gesell, 75

Judge John Sirica, 78

press corps, 75

no-contact list, 3738

nominated for an Emmy, 86

opinion cameras in the courtrooms, 145

Peabody Award, 158

Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), 138, 140-41

remuneration, 44-46

rounds checks, 18

split off NBC radio network from TV, 41

stakeouts, 109

Subversive Activities Control Board, 97

Supreme Court radio coverage           Supreme Court conference list, 102

The Huntley-Brinkley Report, 22

television government reporter, 20

two-source rule for information, 98

Stern v. FBI (case), 160

Stern v. Richardson (case), 156

Stern v. Small Business Administration (case), 161

Stern, George (brother), 3

Stern, Joy (wife), wife, 14, 19-21, 33

Cleveland Playhouse, 190

Stewart, Potter, 100

Superior Court of the District of Columbia, 68

Supreme Court, 24, 33, 43, 51, 53, 64, 68, 91, 97-98, 100, 102, 104-09, 116, 125-26, 128-32, 134, 136, 145-46, 166

appearance of lawyers, 61-62

Falwell, Jerry, 71-72

Jaworski, Leon, 27

Pentagon Papers, 72

Sheppard, Sam, 25

Title IX question, 45, 93

unique difficulties covering the Supreme Court, 123

Watergate tapes, 27

SWP  See Socialist Workers Party

 

Talmadge, Herman, 98

Tehran, 147

Templeton, Donna, 174

The Fugitive (television show), 25

The Washington Post, 45, 72, 154

Thomas, Clarence, 132

Thornburgh, Richard, 65-67

Tigar, Michael, 74

Title IX, 45

Tobin, Trish, 112

Trachtenberg, Stephen, 186

Trans Caribbean Airlines, 28

Truman, Harry, 16

 

U.S. Information Agency, 50

U.S. v. Wade (case), 106

Ulasewicz, Tony, 80

 

Vietnam, 24, 36, 73, 114-16, 143, 148-49

anti-war demonstrations, 34, 70

madness of the anti-war era, 36

Wald, Pat, 159

Walker, John, 118

Wallace, Mike, 87, 181-82, 186

Walsh, Lawrence (Ed), 91

Ward, Russ, 40

Warren, Robert, 119

Washington Cathedral, 174

Washington Star (newspaper), 101

Washington, D.C., 13, 26, 33-34, 38, 44-45, 54, 65, 91, 100, 109, 111, 115, 140-41, 154, 169, 190

IDs, 52

Kennedy assassination, 12

Viet Nam demonstrations, 34-36, 70, 150

World Peace Through Law Conference, 32-33

Watergate, 33-34, 54, 56-57, 62, 69, 72, 75-79, 81, 83-84, 86, 89-90, 92, 96- 98, 115, 127, 138

decision, 98

tapes, 27, 105, 128

trials, 93-94

Weathermen Underground, 37, 159

Wedtech scandal, 65

Weinberger, Casper, 68

Whitten, Les, 36, 71

Williams, Edward Bennett, 26, 74

Williams, Pete, 23

Wilson, Charles, 102

wire services, 100, 103

World Court (International Court of Justice in The Hague), 147

World News Tonight (radio newscast), 40

World Peace Through Law Conference, 32

World Telegram and Sun (newspaper), 6

World Trade Center 1993 bombing, 177

World War II, 5

 

Zeibert, Duke, 26