Evelle J. Younger

(1918-1989) born in Stamford, Harlan County, lived in Hastings. Lawyer, judge, politician, special agent for FBI, elected 30th District Attorney for Los Angeles County, elected California Attorney General, was the first prosecutor in the nation to undertake mass felony prosecutions of college campus demonstrators in the 1960s, co-prosecuted mass murderer Charles Manson and Sirhan Sirhan, the latter an assassin of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, ran unsuccessfully for governor of California. Consult Los Angeles Magazine, December 1964, and Los Angeles Times, October 10, 1978, Part 1, pp. 1, 3, 24-27 and Los Angeles Times obituary, May 5, 1989, pp. 1, 34-35.

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