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