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Service in Army Counterintelligence Corps; practice with Orrick law firm, 1941-1961; California Democratic politics in 1950s; campaigning for Pat Brown, Harry Truman, Adlai Stevenson; Kennedy Administration, 1960-1965; Department of Justice, civil division: New Haven railroad bankruptcy, Bahia de Nipe incident, New York longshoremens' strike, civil rights protest in Alabama; U.S. State Department: Cuban missile crisis, communications system, problems of a bureaucracy, selection of ambassadors; Antitrust Division, and antitrust lawyers; law practice and community service, San Francisco, 1965-1974: San Francisco Opera Association presidency, Eisenhower Commission on Violence, Crime Commission; judge, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 1974 to present: Patty Hearst sentencing, Hell's Angels trial, school desegregation, county jail conditions.

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Title
William H. Orrick: A Life in Public Service: California Politics, the Kennedy Administration, and the Federal Bench
Creator
Orrick, William H., interviewee
Van Nest, Robert, interviewer
Published
Berkeley, CA, Regional Oral History Office, 1989
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U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Oral Histories
Subject (Topic)
Politics, Law, and Policy
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Oral histories.
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The Bancroft Library Oral History Center
Note
Orrick, William H. "William H. Orrick: A Life in Public Service: California Politics, the Kennedy Administration, and the Federal Bench." Interview by Robert Van Nest in 1987 and 1988. Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 1989.
Interview date(s) 1987
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