Henry Wade
Henry Wade
Henry Menasco Wadewas a Texas lawyer who served as District Attorney of Dallas from 1951 to 1987. As such, he participated in two of the most notable U.S. court cases of the 20th century: the prosecution of Jack Ruby for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, and the U.S. Supreme Court's decision legalizing abortion, Roe v. Wade. In addition, Wade was District Attorney when Randall Dale Adams, the subject of the documentary film The Thin Blue Line, was convicted in the murder...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionLawyer
Date of Birth11 November 1914
CountryUnited States of America
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I figure we have sufficient evidence to convict him . . . there's no one else but him.
I think informally prosecutors talk and say, you know, 'What can we do to get minorities off the jury panel?'
Well, they had a lot of the things they found in his possession. They had the map, you know, that marked the route of the parade. They had statements from the bus driver and the taxicab driver that hauled him somewhere.