When they were small, Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler idolized their father, who was famous for having championed the underdogs in some of the most important civil rights and anti-war cases of that contentious era known as the 1960s. Kunstler’s two daughters from his second marriage grew up lionizing a man already famous for his historic civil rights and anti-war cases.
POV William Kunstler: Disturbing the UniverseKunstler (right) at a New York City rally to protest the deaths of 40 inmates at Attica State Prison, 1971.
By the time they were born in the late 1970s, however, those cases were behind William Kunstler, who was almost 60. As the sisters grew into their teens, they were embarrassed and then distressed when their father continued to represent some of the most reviled defendants in America — now accused terrorists, rapists and mobsters.
Tuesday, June 22 at 11 p.m. on PBS-HD.
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