Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, an unflappable lawyer who served as the Kennedy brothers’ emissary to the South during the violent confrontations over racial segregation in the early 1960s and who ...

Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, who famously faced down Alabama Gov. George Wallace on the steps of the University of Alabama, fought the FBI over wiretapping Martin Luther King Jr., was a trusted ...

WASHINGTON — Nicholas Katzenbach, the Kennedy administration lawyer who faced down Gov. George Wallace to enroll the first black students at the University of Alabama and who helped write the ...

Nicholas Katzenbach, a Princeton University alumnus and trustee emeritus who was a towering figure in U.S. civil rights history, died of natural causes Tuesday, May 8, at his home in Skillman, N.J. He ...

Former attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach played a major role in the nation's battle over civil rights and other pivotal moments in the 1960s. As NPR's Debbie Elliott reports, he died this week ...

SKILLMAN, N.J. — Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, who held influential posts in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and played a prominent, televised role in federal desegregation efforts in the ...

NEW YORK — As Nicholas Katzenbach walked onto the film set of “Hart’s War,” the memories of his prisoner-of-war days during World War II were brought back full force. “It was as ...

One of these brave public servants, a true American hero, was Nicholas Katzenbach, who died Tuesday night in New Jersey at the age of 90. The obituaries note that he served as the 65th attorney ...

Nicholas Katzenbach became attorney general in the Johnson administration and played a pivotal role in much of the civil rights history of the 1960s. He died this week at his home in New Jersey at ...