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The Stanford Daily
April 27, 2018
1985: Attorney General Ramsey Clark gave a speech to 70 attendees at Stanford Law School, proclaiming that the “hottest places in hell” are reserved for “those who in times of moral crisis do nothing.” 1990: The campus was made to ration its water due to a shortage of runoff, leading to dry fountains andÃâà...
San Francisco Bay View
April 15, 2018
Luminaries such as Alice Walker, Phil Donahue, Ramsey Clark, Laura Flanders, Danny Glover, Marjorie Cohn, Christopher Simpson, Dolores Huerta, John Pilger, Antonia Juhasz, Greg Palast and Martin Espada grace the pages with their clear, convincing facts, analysis and vision of a world more attunedÃâà...
Common Dreams
April 12, 2018
Just ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump's tweet early Thursday warning that a military attack on Syria will take place at some point in the future—either "soon or not so soon"—a group of international law experts declared in a statement that any such attack would amount to an illegal act of aggression,Ãâà...
The Daily World
April 5, 2018
While attending the Aberdeen high school, Underwood played on the school's basketball team and was a lifeguard at Miller natatorium. 50 years ago. April 5, 1968. Atty. Gen. Ramsey Clark said today that “substantial leads” had been developed in the hunt for the killer of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Clark saidÃâà...
The Hill
April 5, 2018
Johnson's attorney general, Ramsey Clark, took a few important early steps, but Republican Richard Nixon was elected president only 200 days into the “fair housing” era, and he appointed his former law partner, John Mitchell, as his attorney general. Would the Nixon-Mitchell combination kill fair housing?
CityLab
April 4, 2018
At 7:25 p.m., he received official word but few details from Attorney General Ramsey Clark. King died at 8:05 p.m.. One hour later, Johnson appeared on national television and gave a three-minute address in which he mourned the death “of this outstanding leader” and appealed for calm. “I ask every citizenÃâà...
Chicago Reader
April 4, 2018
"The issue no longer seems to be whether government operatives were involved," they wrote, "but how high up the chain of command the conspiracy ran." Sergeant and Edginton spoke to several people who had been involved in the case, including U.S. attorney general Ramsey Clark and Ray himself.
Buffalo News
April 3, 2018
Bruce Beyer was one of the protesters in Washington who stood on the steps of the Justice Department and returned his draft card to Attorney General Ramsey Clark. To avoid induction he took sanctuary in the Unitarian Universalist Church on Elmwood Avenue, where he would become known as one ofÃâà...
University of Virginia
April 3, 2018
Johnson gets U.S. Attorney General W. Ramsey Clark on the phone after Clark has talked with Daley about sending troops to Chicago. Again, both men emphasize protecting themselves from any accusations of political favoritism. “We need to reconnoiter and make the judgment, like we did in Detroit,Ãâà...
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