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Charles R. Garry (March 17, 1909 – August 16, 1991) was an American civil rights attorney who represented a number of high-profile clients in political cases during the 1960s and 1970s, including Huey P. Newton during his 1968 capital murder trial and the Peoples Temple during the 1978 Jonestown tragedy.
Feb 6, 2014 · A one-hour documentary, produced by Roxanne Makasdjian, about defense lawyer Charles Garry, who defended political activists including the Black Panthers, Los Siete de la Raza, the Oakland 7,...
Jun 9, 2020 · Charles R. Garry, born Garabed Garabedian, was a civil rights lawyer best known for representing the Black Panther Party. Born in 1909 to Armenian parents who had escaped the Hamidian Massacres in the Ottoman Empire, he grew up in the rural town of Selma in California`s San Joaquin Valley.
In 1977, Garry began working with Peoples Temple, which had managed to establish in the Jonestown community what he himself referred to as “paradise.” The Temple, he believed, picked up where ...
Oct 19, 2020 · As depicted in the film, Black Panthers co-founder Bobby Seale was supposed to be represented by the group's retained legal counsel, Charles Garry, but he was taken ill on the eve of the trial...
Oct 16, 2020 · Seale and Judge Hoffman were continuously at odds during the trial. Seale’s lawyer, Charles Garry, was stuck in California for health reasons and unable to travel.
Sep 24, 2019 · Seale had chosen lawyer Charles Garry to represent him in court, and because Garry needed gallbladder surgery, he asked Judge Hoffman to postpone the trial.
Charles Garry was a legendary Bay Area criminal defense lawyer from the 1940s through the 1980s, most famous for his aggressive courtroom tactics and for never losing a client to the death penalty.
May 15, 1988 · Charles Garry, the militant criminal attorney who once lived among the Black Panthers, is balding and his handshake is a little less firm, but the 79-year-old lawyer can still rail against...
Aug 18, 1991 · Charles R. Garry, the lawyer who became known for representing members of the Black Panther Party and Vietnam War protesters and who escaped the 1978 mass murder and suicide at Jonestown,...
