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(Phil Schaap, the gabby but informed jazz show host on WKCR, is Bill
Schaap's cousin. My guess is that their fathers were CP'ers.)
NY Times, Mar. 2 2016
William H. Schaap, Radical Lawyer, Author and Publisher, Dies at 75
By SAM ROBERT
William H. Schaap, a radical lawyer, author and publisher who fought
against investigative abuses by government agencies at home and abroad,
died on Feb. 25 in Manhattan. He was 75.
The cause was pulmonary disease, his niece Rosie Schaap said.
Mr. Schaap began his activism in law school, counseling students
arrested in Chicago for protesting segregated housing.
As a lawyer, he defended Columbia University students arrested in 1968
for occupying campus buildings to protest the war in Vietnam. In the
late 1960s, he left a Wall Street law firm where he was an associate and
moved to Japan and Germany with his wife, Ellen Ray, to counsel
resisters to the war in Vietnam.
In 1976, they formed what became CovertAction, a publication that
reported on illegal Central Intelligence Agency activities. It also
identified C.I.A. agents by name, from unclassified sources, a practice
outlawed by Congress in 1982. Mr. Schaap also represented C.I.A.
whistle-blowers, like Philip Agee.
In 1980, in a letter to The New York Times, Mr. Schaap, Ms. Ray and
Louis Wolf, the editors of what was then called The Covert Action
Information Bulletin, wrote, “We do not object to intelligence
gathering; we object to the covert interference in the affairs of other
nations, the refusal to let the people of those nations decide for
themselves upon their leaders, their systems of government and the forms
of institutions they desire.”
Mr. Schaap and Ms. Ray often singled out The Times for criticism through
their Institute for Media Analysis and later a monthly news-media
watchdog magazine, Lies of Our Times. They criticized, among other
articles, what they called favorable coverage of the Chilean dictator
Augusto Pinochet and of F. W. de Klerk, the president of South Africa
during apartheid, in The Times and other mainstream publications.
They also founded Sheridan Square Press, which published the New Orleans
prosecutor Jim Garrison’s “On the Trail of the Assassins: My
Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy,” which
was a source for Oliver Stone in making the 1991 film “JFK.”
After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Mr. Schaap lived part time in New
Orleans, representing displaced homeowners.
William Herman Schaap was born in Brooklyn on March 1, 1940, to Maurice
Schaap, a salesman, and the former Leah Lerner, a French teacher. He
received a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University in 1961 and
graduated from the University of Chicago Law School.
Mr. Schaap’s older brother was the sports broadcaster Dick Schaap, who
died in 2001, and who once wrote: “I write, mostly to entertain, to make
people smile, perhaps even laugh. My brother writes, mostly, to incite,
to make people angry, perhaps even to act.”
Ms. Ray died in 2015. Mr. Schaap is survived by a sister, Nancy Silvio.
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