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Extraction Summary
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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Manuscript draft / book chapter
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Summary
This document appears to be a page (330) from a draft manuscript, likely by Alan Dershowitz, dated April 2, 2012. The text recounts a grim experience playing basketball on death row and discusses the political shift in human rights discourse during the 1970s, criticizing 'hard left' figures like Noam Chomsky and former clients Angela Davis and Abbie Hoffman for their stance on socialist regimes and Israel.
People (7)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Author (implied Alan Dershowitz) | Author/Attorney |
Narrator of the text, former lawyer for Angela Davis and the Chicago Seven.
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| The Warden | Prison Official |
Invited the author to play basketball with inmates; took notes on inmate behavior.
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| Noam Chomsky | Professor (MIT) |
Described as a 'hard left intellectual' claiming the US was the worst human rights violator.
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| Richard Falk | Professor (Princeton) |
Described as a 'hard left intellectual' claiming the US was the worst human rights violator.
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| William Kunstler | Lawyer |
Described as a 'hard left lawyer' who refused to criticize socialist countries.
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| Angela Davis | Client/Activist |
Former client of the author; criticized for supporting Soviet repression.
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| Abby Hoffman (Abbie Hoffman) | Client/Defendant |
Chicago Seven defendant; accused of making anti-Semitic remarks about his lawyers.
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Organizations (5)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| MIT | University |
Affiliation of Noam Chomsky.
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| Princeton | University |
Affiliation of Richard Falk.
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| United Nations | International Organization |
Venue where Soviet diplomats postured.
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| PLO | Organization |
Palestine Liberation Organization; described by author as a 'terrorist gang'.
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| House Oversight Committee | Government Body |
Indicated by the Bates stamp 'HOUSE_OVERSIGHT'.
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Timeline (3 events)
Unknown
Locations (7)
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Country mentioned in context of human rights debates.
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Country mentioned regarding human rights violations and dissidents.
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Region mentioned regarding the 'hard left'.
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Mentioned as a socialist country.
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Mentioned as a socialist country.
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Mentioned in the context of Abby Hoffman's alleged remarks.
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Mentioned in a footnote joke.
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Relationships (2)
Angela Davis, who I had helped to represent in the early 1970s
Author
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Attorney/Client (Estranged)
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Abby Hoffman
Another client, Abby Hoffman, also turned against me.
Key Quotes (3)
"I’ve never experienced so grim a place as this 'life or death row,' where every inmate saw every other inmate as a competitor in the quest to remain alive."Source
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Quote #1
"I never made a remark about my ‘Jewish Lawyers.’ I might have spoken more positively about the PLO but I would never make an anti-Semitic juxtaposition such as you think you heard."Source
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Quote #2
"At the time Hoffman penned these words, the PLO was a terrorist gang that was hijacking airplanes, murdering civilians and blowing up synagogues..."Source
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Quote #3
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