Author: Fred Gardner

Office Politics at SFDA

Continuing the memo that awaited District Attorney Hallinan when he got back from a week’s vacation on August 12, 2000.  TTH stands for Terence Tyrone Hallinan. He was named after the great Roman playwright who had been...

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Bar Fights

Like his father before him, Terence Hallinan was prevented from practicing law by the California Bar Association. Vincent Hallinan’s  license had been suspended for three years (1957-1960) after he was convicted of federal...

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McCarthyism, Marin, McNeil Island

Vincent Hallinan believed Harry Bridges when he said had he never joined the Communist Party (CP), so there could be no documentary evidence to the contrary produced at the trial —no authentic membership card or signed...

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