Alfred’s NYCLU brief on behalf of a Student for Democratic Society (SDS) member who had been sentenced to summary contempt at the New York Panther 21 trial had reportedly been circulated nation-wide
Alfred had been brought into Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in 1969 by Fowler Hamilton, John F. Kennedy’s first nominee for CIA (later Kennedy’s head of US AID). Alfred wondered why Fowler Hamilton had brought him into Cleary Gottlieb. At the time, he attributed the fortunate job offering to the happy coincidence that the Washington, DC lawyer represe…
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