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Chronicle Reports ACLU Press Conference with Arrested Lawyers
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San Francisco Chronicle, January 6, 1965, page 7.
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Repository: GLBT Historical Society
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ACLU Joins Homosexual Dance Case
The American Civil Liberties Union announced here yesterday it will defend three lawyers arrested at a homosexual benefit ball when they objected to the police moving in.
Flanked by the attorneys involved, ACLU lawyer Marshall Krause told a press conference the three were victims of "police harassment."
Charged with obstructing police officers at California Hall the night of January 1 were attorneys Evander Smith, Herbert Donaldson and Elliot Leighton.
The police made the arrests, Krause said, in an effort "to intimidate attorneys who represent unpopular groups."
The three lawyers said they were hustled away by uniformed police on the instructions of plainclothes inspectors when they said police needed either a warrant or information that a crime was being committed to enter the premises.
The benefit ball was organized by the Council for Religion and Homosexuality, a group established by Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran and United Church of Christ leaders to try to integrate homosexuals into the community.
The American Civil Liberties Union announced here yesterday it will defend three lawyers arrested at a homosexual benefit ball when they objected to the police moving in.
Flanked by the attorneys involved, ACLU lawyer Marshall Krause told a press conference the three were victims of "police harassment."
Charged with obstructing police officers at California Hall the night of January 1 were attorneys Evander Smith, Herbert Donaldson and Elliot Leighton.
The police made the arrests, Krause said, in an effort "to intimidate attorneys who represent unpopular groups."
The three lawyers said they were hustled away by uniformed police on the instructions of plainclothes inspectors when they said police needed either a warrant or information that a crime was being committed to enter the premises.
The benefit ball was organized by the Council for Religion and Homosexuality, a group established by Episcopal, Methodist, Lutheran and United Church of Christ leaders to try to integrate homosexuals into the community.