Bioterror

William Herman Schaap was born in Brooklyn, New York on March 1, 1940. He received a bachelor's degree from Cornell University in 1961 and a law degree from the University of Chicago Law School. He was a lawyer, author, and publisher who fought against investigative abuses by government agencies at home and abroad.

As a lawyer, he defended Columbia University students arrested in 1968 for occupying campus buildings to protest the war in Vietnam. In the late 1960s, he left a Wall Street law firm where he was an associate and moved to Japan and Germany to counsel resisters to the war in Vietnam. In 1976, he and his wife Ellen Ray founded CovertAction, a publication that reported on illegal Central Intelligence Agency activities. They also founded Sheridan Square Press. After Hurricane Katrina in 2005, he lived part time in New Orleans, representing displaced homeowners. He died of pulmonary disease on February 25, 2016 at the age of 75.

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