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riots
throughout
American as cherry pie." His talks are said to have incited BURGER, WARREN
America, including ones in Cambridge, Maryland. There he was reported to
have started an incident that resulted in arson, and consequently he was sought
for this crime. He was even put on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI)
Ten Most Wanted List, which Brown argued was in response to his political
speech. He went into hiding and later was caught near the scene of a robbery.
Although no evidence was uncovered, he was found guilty and plea-bargained
for reduced time if he admitted he was connected with the arson charges in
Maryland. In jail, he changed his name to Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin and con-
verted to the Muslim faith. He now lives in Atlanta, where he works within the
Muslim community as an educator.

SOURCES: Current Biography, 1994; Jack Salzman, David Lionel Smith, and Cornel
West, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, 1990.
Jacqueline Nash Gifford

BURGER, WARREN (1907-1995) was the chief justice of the U.S. Supreme
Court from May 1969 to July 1986. He was appointed by President Richard M.
Nixon.
He was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to Swiss-German parents. He graduated
from law school with highest honors and worked as a lawyer with a local firm.
His work with the Republican candidates' campaigns, including that of Dwight
Eisenhower, fueled his national judicial career, including a position on the U.S.
Court of Appeals.
The Burger Court ruled in favor of the media and the First Amendment less
often than the Warren Court had. It ruled against confidential privilege for news-
people and took away some of the gains for the media made in New York Times
v. Sullivan and subsequent decisions of the Warren Court. Yet decisions of the
Burger Court in a series of cases beginning with Nebraska Press Association v.
Stuart (427 U.S. 53, 1976) clearly established the right of the media to report
on court cases. In Miami Herald v. Tornillo (418 U.S. 241, 1974) the Court
rejected the concept of a right of reply for persons criticized by newspapers.
Burger was not a fan of the press. He resented television cameras in the
courtroom and did not permit them in the Supreme Court. However, in Chandler
v. Florida (449 U.S. 560, 1980), he did vote to give states the right to permit
cameras in their courtrooms if they choose.
SOURCES: Leon Friedman, The Burger Court, 1978; The Oxford Companion to the
Supreme Court of the United States, 1992.
Guido H. Stempel III

BUSH-RATHER INTERVIEW. On January 25, 1988, CBS Evening News
anchor Dan Rather interviewed George Bush, vice president and presidential
candidate. The nine-minute interview followed a five-minute, videotaped feature