![]() spurred him to write Reckless Disregard: Corporate Greed, Government Indifference and the Kentucky School Bus Crash, his fourth book. His coverage for People of the worst drunk driving crash in the U.S. Īfter leaving the Public Defender Service in Washington, Kunen worked as an editorial page editor at Newsday on Long Island before joining People as a writer and editor. His experiences in criminal courts led to his writing How Can You Defend Those People?, published by Random House in 1983. Īfterward, he graduated from the New York University School of Law and moved to Washington, D.C., where he became a public defender. This experience led to Standard Operating Procedure, his second published work. Īfter graduating from Columbia in 1970, he became a field journalist from Vietnam for True. This experience led him to write The Strawberry Statement, documenting the university's controversial involvement with the government's Institute for Defense Analyses. He attended Columbia University during the 1968 student protests and participated in the student sit-in at the institution's Hamilton Hall, resulting in his arrest for trespassing. James Simon Kunen is an alumnus of Fay School and Phillips Academy. ![]() ![]() ![]() He is best known as the author of The Strawberry Statement, a first-person documentary of the Columbia University protests of 1968. James Simon Kunen (born 1948) is an American author, journalist and lawyer. American author, journalist and lawyer (born 1948) ![]()
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