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Record:
GERTZ, ELMER
Sources:

New York Times, Saturday, April 29, 2000, p. B23

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Comments:

Chicago civil rights lawyer and law professor who defended Jack Ruby in 1964. He was born in Chicago and died there Thursday, April 27, 2000, at age 93. He had also defended Nathan Leopold who, with Richard Loeb, participated in the 1924 thrill killing of 14-year-old Bobby Franks. He also defended Henry Miller. His first wife, Ceretta Samuels, died in 1958. His second wife, Mami Laitchin Friedman, died in 1997. He was survived by a daughter, Margery Hechtman, a son, Theodore Gertz, two brothers: Robert Gertz and Dr. George Gertz; six grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

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