Crimes - Criminals - Judges - Lawyers - Trials
Dec. 12, 1969 - Second Criminal Advocacy Seminar in Munich: During meeting of American lawyers in Munich (from (Dec. 26th - Dec. 28th) in which also the American star lawyers Mr. Melvin Belli and Mr. Henry B. Rothblatt, Esq. took part, Mr. Belli got a curios Christmas present'. A piece of blood-drenched fabric and some lines from the murderer Zodiac who is accused of eight murders that have not yet been solved up to now, were addressed to the trial lawyer in his Munich hotel. The unknown mass murderer asked Mr. Belli for help. The lawyer who became well-known as defense counsel of Jack Ruby who had shot dead the supposed murderer of John F. Kennedy, Lee Harvey Oswald, offered his help to Zodiac at any time. Photo shows Mr. Melvin Belli (left) talking to Mr. Henry B. Rothblatt, the leading New York City attorney who became well-known by the recent Green Beret case, in which he flew to Saigon to defend one of the U.S. Army officers charged with murder
