A life in public service
Subtitle: California politics, the Kennedy administration, and the federal bench
By: interview conducted by Robert A. Van Nest ; introduction by Charles B. Renfrew ; Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Renfrew, Charles B.; Van Nest, Robert A.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Publisher: University of California
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Subjects: Kennedy, John F. 1917-1963.; Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968.; Hearst, Patricia, 1954-; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe.; Democratic Party (Calif.); United States. Dept. of Justice. Civil Division.; United States. Dept. of Justice. Antitrust Division -- Officials and employees; New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Company.; Bahia de Nipe (Ship).; United States. Dept. of State -- Officials and employees.; Hell's Angels.; School integration -- California -- San Francisco.; Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962.; Civil rights -- Alabama.; District courts -- California.
Other titles: Northern California U.S. District Court oral history series.
Description: Judge Orrick discusses Democratic politics in California, the Kennedy Administration and his tenure in the Justice Department, particularly the New Haven railroad bankruptcy, the civil rights protests in Alabama, the Bahia de Nipe incident, and the Cuban missile crisis. Appointed to the federal bench in 1974, he speaks of some of the cases he heard: Patty Hearst, the Hells Angels, and the desegregation of San Francisco's schools.