Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fate of an Army private named G. David Schine and the fate of a New York dentist named Irving Peress somehow became high affairs of state. Senator McCarthy, ever the showman, gave televiewers their time's worth. A new character. Ray Jenkins, the committee's trap-jawed counsel, brought to the screen the forensic flamboyance of a Southern trial lawyer...
Nevertheless, it was a poor show. Again and again the committee got itself snarled up in procedural difficulties. Counsel Jenkins could not seem to decide whether he was plaintiff's attorney, defendant's attorney, judge or bailiff. And McCarthy worked mightily at recasting himself as the prosecutor...
Some public education-especially about the characters of McCarthy and his counsel. Roy Cohn-might result from this show. But in its first few days, the main point shown was that the legal trial, which everyone takes for granted, is a most complex and valuable institution-not to be parodied by a vulgar imitation of judicial process...
...Knows Well Who I Am." Chairman Mundt. no lawyer though cast in a judicial role, solved the problem by avoiding an answer. Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins rumbled out the name of the first witness: Major General Miles Reber, former Chief of Army legislative liaison, now U.S. Army commander in Europe's Western area...
...McCarthy listened intently to Reber's testimony, twin furrows appeared on the Senator's brow. Nervously he took notes, pausing from time to time to give ear to the excited whispers of his committee counsel, Roy Cohn, who is also accused by the Army of seeking.favors for Private Schine. Counsel Jenkins leaned close to the microphone, the corners of his cavernous mouth turned down, his Tennessee drawl booming throughout the room. He worked entirely without notes...