Epstein Secrets

the judge need not view the film: no matter what its content, I said, it would be unconstitutional for him to enjoin the showing of any film. If the D.A. thought the film was obscene, he could wait until it was exhibited and then arrest those responsible for its being shown. Judge Alberti insisted, how

efore the scheduled performance, Carl Stork and Nathan J. Hagen—the co- presidents of the Quincy House Film Society—received telephone calls from the D.A.’s office directing them to be in Judge Charles R. Alberti’s courtroom at two o’clock for a hearing. Stork and Hagen tried to call me in my office. Bu

I worried about the implications of a judicial decision authorizing censorship. It could be used to justify the censorship of a march by the likes of Martin Luther King through a segregated community in the south; whose residents would be deeply offended by an integrated group marching through their community. It’s n

o cities to appear before grand juries investigating criminal charges against abortionists. On both occasions | refused to testify, and each time the D.A. tried to frighten me into cooperating with the threat of arrest. In Liberty, New York, my name had been extorted from a patient by threatening Aer w

ss will have to keep a sharper eye on Aim." It was poetic irony that while Bobby Kennedy was giving official permission to J. Edgar Hoover to spy on Martin Luther King, | was giving unofficial permission to Hoover to spy on Kennedy. That is to say, Robert Maheu may have been working for Howard Hughes, but he had als

he charges. I thought that this was a perfect teaching vehicle and I invited the alleged victim’s lawyer to join in the class in which I assigned the D.A.’s memorandum seeking dismissal. It was a spirited class, after which several students told me they had changed their minds—both ways. One student des

rowing in the pre-Brown versus Board of Education era of legally mandated segregation, the goal of all decent people is the same: color blindness. As Martin Luther King was to put it so eloquently several years later: “T have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be j