Background
FENSTERWALD, BERNARD was born on August 2, 1921 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
FENSTERWALD, BERNARD was born on August 2, 1921 in Nashville, Tennessee, United States.
Harvard College (Bachelor of Science, magna cum laude, 1942). School of Advanced International Studies. Johns Hopkins University (Master of Arts, 1950).
Cambridge University, Cambridge, England.
Harvard Law School (Bachelor of Laws, 1949). Assistant to the Legal Advisor, United States.
Department of State, 1950-1956. Chief Counsel, Subcommittees on: Constitutional Amendments, 1959-1960.
Administrative Practice and Procedure, 19641968.
Staff Director, Subcommittee on Anti-trust and Monopoly, 19611963, United States.
He served in the United States Navy during World World War World War II He entered the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and received an Master of Arts in 1950. From 1951 to 1956 Fensterwald worked for the State Department as an Assistant Legal Advisor. In 1957 Fensterwald was hired by Thomas C. Hennings as an investigator for the Senate Committee on Constitutional Rights.
In the 1960s he was chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee under Senator Edward V. Long." Fensterwald once implied that Long was being blackmailed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In 1969, Fensterwald and Richard East. Sprague founded a private "Committee to Investigate Assassinations," which primarily concerned itself with the Kennedy assassination.
In the late 1970s, he was Congressman Thomas North. Downing"s favorite to become chief counsel for the House Select Committee on Assassinations but withdrew himself from consideration after objection from Congressman Henry B. Gonzalez. In 1984, Fensterwald and James Lesar (with whom Fensterwald had represented James Earl Ray) founded the Assassination and Archives Research Center (AARC).
One of Fensterwald"s more notable cases was his unsuccessful defense of Watergate criminal James McCord. He was also connected to other characters on the fringes of Watergate.
When Paisley died under suspicious circumstances, his widow hired Fensterwald to investigate.
Prior to the Watergate burglaries, both Fensterwald and McCord employed a private investigator named Lou Russell. Fensterwald died of a heart attack in Alexandria, Virginia, aged 69.
This included defending State Department employees accused by Joseph McCarthy of being members of the American Communist Party.
District of Columbia Bar. Virginia State Bar; Massachusetts Bar Association. [Lieutenant, United States.
Navy, 1942-1946].
