Curated playlist
New York (state) lawyers
- Franklin D. RooseveltFranklin D. Roosevelt was paralyzed from the waist down, and he was careful never to be seen in his wheelchair.
- Robert F. KennedyRobert F. Kennedy won the California Democratic primary on the 5th of June 1968, and around midnight a gunman shot him. Kennedy died 25 hours later. The shooter was Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian who acted in retaliation for…
- Andrew CuomoAndrew Cuomo, the 56th governor of New York, once held a distinction that is easy to overlook. From the 4th of January 2021, he was the longest-serving sitting governor in the United States, with 3,887 days in office. Within months, that…
- Alexander HamiltonAlexander Hamilton was still a teenager in 1771 when the owner of Beekman and Cruger, an import-export firm on the island of Saint Croix, sailed away and left him running the place for five months. The young man had been born out of…
- Chester A. ArthurChester Alan Arthur became the 21st president of the United States at 2:15 in the morning on the 20th of September 1881. He took the oath inside his own house on Lexington Avenue in New York City, from a judge named John R. Brady. The news…
- Adam SilverFour days after a racist recording leaked, Adam Silver banned Donald Sterling from the NBA for life.
- John F. Kennedy Jr.John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr. spent his life answering to a name his own family never used. The nickname John-John began when a reporter misheard the president calling out "John" twice in quick succession. The mistake stuck. From then on,…
- Caroline KennedyCaroline Kennedy was a small girl riding a pony named Macaroni when a news photograph of her became the seed of a pop song. The picture showed her circling the White House grounds. It inspired singer-songwriter Neil Diamond to write "Sweet…
- William H. SewardWilliam H. Seward led the 1860 first ballot for president, then lost to Lincoln. Lincoln made him Secretary of State.
- Amal ClooneyAmal Clooney once stood before the International Criminal Court on behalf of 126 victims of the genocide in Darfur, Sudan. The trial she took part in is the only one that, as of October 2025, has ended in a conviction for crimes against…
- Jed S. RakoffJed Rakoff ruled against his own circuit's insider trading rule, and the Supreme Court unanimously agreed in 2016.
- Alan DershowitzAlan Morton Dershowitz is an American lawyer and law professor, and by his own account his career began as a joke at the expense of his teachers. He later recalled that they steered him toward work that "requires a big mouth and no…