About
Attorney for radical and sometimes controversial figures like the Chicago Seven, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Colin Ferguson, who shot six people to death.
Before Fame
As a teenager he ran around committing petty crimes with a gang called The Red Devils.
Trivia
He enjoyed defending the unpopular partly because of the publicity he got from it, and partly, he said, because he didn't want the state to become all-powerful.
Family Life
He had four children with his wife, and two of his daughters, Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler, made a documentary about him entitled William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe.
Associated With
He became renown for defending Abbie Hoffman and the Chicago Seven in a trial that became half farce due to his sharp exchanges with the judge and the antics of the defendants.
