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Advocates; Should your state adopt a pre-trial preventative detention law?
Should your state adopt a pre-trial preventative detention law? Moderator: Roger Fisher Advocate: Howard Miller Advocate: William Rusher Witnesses: Judge Tim Murphy – Superior Court, Washington, DC Donald Santarelli – Dept. of Justice Justice Arthur James – High Court, England Sgt. Hugh Williams – Newark Police Dept. Alan Dershowitz – Harvard Law School Produced by WGBH, bears WGBH copyright.

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- Series
- Advocates
- Program
- Should your state adopt a pre-trial preventative detention law?
- Program Number
58
- Series Description
A SERIES OF DEBATES with a moderator facilitating the discussion of national and international issues - using advocates who would introduce witnesses to support their point of view. Debates recorded at Boston's Faneuil Hall. Moderators included: Michael Dukakis; Marilyn Berger; Michael Harrington, Robert Maynard. (Premiered October, 1969; conceived by Prof. Roger Fisher.) Other participants included Barney Frank, Avi Nelson, Antonin Scalia, S.I. Hayakawa, Paul Simon, Albert Shankar, Richard Bolling, Pete McCloskey, Chester Crocker, John Anderson, Elmo Zumwalt, George Ball, John Kenneth Galbraith, William Colby, Eleanor Smeal, Phyllis Schlafly, Sam Ervin, Laurence Tribe, Daniel Schorr, Orrin Hatch, Morris Udall, Edward Kennedy, George McGovern, Jake Garn, Paul Tsongas, Alan Dershowitz. Series release date: 1969
- Program Description
Moderator: Roger Fisher Advocate: Howard Miller Advocate: William Rusher Witnesses: Judge Tim Murphy – Superior Court, Washington, DC Donald Santarelli – Dept. of Justice Justice Arthur James – High Court, England Sgt. Hugh Williams – Newark Police Dept. Alan Dershowitz – Harvard Law School Produced by WGBH, bears WGBH copyright.
- Asset Type
Broadcast program
- Media Type
Video
- Genres
- Debate
- Topics
- Public Affairs
- Social Issues
- Citation
- Chicago: “Advocates; Should your state adopt a pre-trial preventative detention law?,” GBH Archives, accessed March 3, 2021, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_299047DA84084C4C8593EFB8846B7B7A.
- MLA: “Advocates; Should your state adopt a pre-trial preventative detention law?.” GBH Archives. Web. March 3, 2021. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_299047DA84084C4C8593EFB8846B7B7A>.
- APA: Advocates; Should your state adopt a pre-trial preventative detention law?. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_299047DA84084C4C8593EFB8846B7B7A