Word: katzmann
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...evidence presented at the trial was somewhat nebulous, the personalities involved certainly were not. The presiding judge, Webster Thayer, was a traditional Yankee with little sympathy for radicals. The Prosecutor, District Attorney Frederick G. Katzmann '96, was a cold, sharp, thin-lipped man of German descent who sought convictions with merciless persistence. And the original defense counsel, Fred Moore, was a leftist labor lawyer who sported long hair and often wore sandals to Court. Moore's appearance coupled with his constant objections to Katzmann's tactics, only strengthened Thayer's bias against the defendants...