On Saturday morning, the Schiller Institute spoke with the family of former United States Attorney General Ramsey Clark. We expressed condolences on behalf of Schiller Institute founder and co-chairwoman Helga Zepp-LaRouche upon hearing news of Clark’s passing, at the age of 93, on Friday, April 9. His family expressed thanks for our wishes, and remarked that they were very aware of the regard in which Mr. Clark held Lyndon LaRouche.
Clark, who never missed an occasion in the last years of his life to appear at Schiller Institute events when called upon to do so, was, like LaRouche, an independent man of principle, a true citizen of the Republic of the Mind. So long as he was alive, the justice that citizens should expect to enjoy from the American Constitutional and legal system was personified. Clark understood the true depth of injustice that LaRouche and his associates had suffered, and he also appreciated that “the book people” as he referred to the International Caucus of Labor Committees, possessed an unshakeable commitment to truth.
One source recalled in recent days that Clark caused those who were severely critical of LaRouche, particularly on the left, to investigate who LaRouche really was. His assessment was said to be that the ICLC and affiliate organizations were the best organized group against the establishment, and that, if the organization were to disintegrate or be destroyed, the United States would turn to fascism.
It was to prevent precisely such an occurrence that Clark sent a letter to Attorney General Janet Reno on April 26, 1995, which began as follows:
“April 26, 1995
Re: U.S. v. Lyndon LaRouche, Jr. et al.
