Request for Question Clarification by
secret901-ga
on
04 Aug 2002 22:46 PDT
Since my answer does not contain any additional information about his
wife besides the correct spelling of her name and her maiden name, I'm
going to post the answer as a request for clarification, with the
crucial information in blanks. If you think that this answer
adequately address your needs, please let me know and I shall post it
as an answer, with the blanks filled in, along with my search strategy
and sources. Also, there's an article about him having a heart attack
in the New York Times that I will look at tomorrow. I might have more
information by then.
Regards,
secret901
I believe that the person that you’re referring to was Arthur
__________.
Arthur _______. served as Attorney General for New Jersey from ______
to _____ under Governor Richard J. Hughes. He was born in _____ at
Brooklyn and graduated from _________ and ________. He was a former
president of the National Association of Attorneys General, and a
member of the board of the New Jersey Anti-Defamation League of B'nai
B'rith. In 1968, he received the ___________________ Award. He died
of a stroke on Sunday, ________________ at Perth Amboy (N.J.) General
Hospital. He was 65 years old and lived in Metuchen, N.J. At the time
of his death, he was a senior member in the Newark law firm of
____________________________. He was survived by his wife Mina (née
Minzer), a daughter (Hedy Bush), his mother (Ida Silverman), a sister
(Sylvia Oettle) and two grandchildren.
During his term in office, which spanned the two administrations of
Hughes, ________ championed civil rights causes and a strong gun
control law for the state. However, he defended a massive search for
46 stolen guns in the July 1967 during a racial riot (23 killed, 1500
injured, 1300 arrested). The search, which involved 300 heavily armed
National Guardsmen and state troopers in a black area in Plainfield,
was conducted without a warrant under a declaration of emergency from
Governor Hughes. The search was forced to stop when residents
complained about the damage done to their homes. Civil rights groups
and residents denounced the search, but ______ said that “under terms
of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, we had a right to move
in, in an emergency such as this, without search warrants.”
Mr. _______ also played an important part in a court battle in New
Jersey on police filing of dissenters. In 1968, New Jersey mayors met
with Hughes and _______ seeking guidance on how to deal with the
disturbances that they expect to happen. ________ wrote a memorandum
revealing that the state police had been urging local police to fill
out two forms - one calling for a report on any civil disturbance,
riot, protest, demonstration or confrontation, and another asking for
detailed personal information about the people taking part in them.
This practice had been in effect since the 1940’s, but his memorandum
drew public attention to it. The ACLU sued to stop this practice and
to have the files destroyed, but in 1970 the New Jersey supreme court
unanimously voted to uphold this activity.
