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F. Lee Bailey: 1933-2021

By Photos by Associated Press

June 3, 2021

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O.J. Simpson attorneys Robert Kardashian, F. Lee Bailey and Johnnie Cochran Jr., left to right, walk down the stairs through the waiting media as they arrive at the Criminal Courts Building in Los Angeles, Jan. 24, 1995.
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Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey moves to call new witnesses concerning former Los Angeles Police Department Detective Mark Fuhrman's use of racial epithets and possible involvement with Nazi symbols, Sept 1, 1995, during the O.J. Simpson double murder trial in Los Angeles. At left is prosecuting attorney William Hodgman.
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O.J. Simpson, right, confers with one of his attorneys, F. Lee Bailey, March 2, 1995, in a Los Angeles courtroom during his double murder trial. Rosa Lopez, the witness who could be his potential alibi the night Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman were murdered, took the witness stand for another full day of testimony.
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In this Oct. 3, 1995, file photo, O.J. Simpson reacts as he is found not guilty in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, as defense attorneys F. Lee Bailey, left, and Johnnie L. Cochran Jr., stand with him. Bailey, the celebrity attorney who defended O.J. Simpson, Patricia Hearst and the alleged Boston Strangler, but whose legal career halted when he was disbarred in two states, has died, a former colleague confirmed today. He was 87.
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F. Lee Bailey, defense lawyer for Capt. Ernest L. Medina, puffs out his cheeks as he talks with reporters at end of court session at Fort McPherson, Ga., Sept. 15, 1971. Medina is on trial in connection with the murder of civilians at My Lai. Bailey is now presenting the defense part of the trial.
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Boston attorney F. Lee Bailey, right, announces at a news conference in Cleveland, Ohio, on May 6. 1965 he has asked for a rehearing on a court order that Sam Sheppard be returned to prison. Sheppard with pipe was ordered to serve the rest of a life sentence by the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. The former suburban Bay Village osteopath has spent nearly 10 years of a life sentence in prison for the 1954 murder of his first wife.
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Unrehearsed and without script is the new at-home interview series of ABC-TV, “Good Company.” It is also without fee. Seven hours of work, with a crew of more than two dozen, went into the interview with Sean Connery, the British actor who has just freed himself from his role as James Bond, 007. Here F. Lee Bailey, the American lawyer who acts as interviewer on the program, speaks with actress Diane Cilento, Connery's wife, at the home they bought on Putney Health outside London on Sept. 12, 1967. Making the introduction is Connery, who is growing a mustache and longer hair for a Western role.
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The feature event at the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Norfolk, Mass. on April 3, 1978 was a blues concert by singer/guitarist B.B. King, right, but also a big hit was Boston attorney F. Lee Bailey, tleft, who answered questions from a packed auditorium of inmates. One questioner was William “Lefty” Gilday, below center, convicted of the Sept. 23, 1970 Boston bank holdup slaying of Boston Police officer Walter Schroeder. Gilday’s allegedly took part in the robbery with Susan Saxe and Kathy Powers, who were on the FBI’s most wanted list for several years.
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Patty Hearst's defense attorneys, F. Lee Bailey (striped suit, second from right) and Albert Johnson, right, are the center of attention at a news conference in San Francisco, Nov. 4, 1975, after U.S. District Court Judge Oliver J. Carter delayed a ruling on Miss Hearst's mental competency until later this week.
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Joan Kennedy, left, wife of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, chats with lawyer F. Lee Bailey during a reception at a salute to the 350th anniversary of the founding of Boston, sponsored by Time magazine, in Boston, April 10, 1980.
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Veterinarian Dr. Mark Gerard carries a box containing evidence as he enters court in Mineola, N.Y., Sept. 1978 with his attorney F. Lee Bailey, left. Gerard is on trial for allegedly masterminding the switch of mediocre race horse Lebon for Uruguyan champion Cinzano.
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F. Lee Bailey testifies during cross examination in the third trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard, Monday, Feb. 14, 2000 in Cleveland. He was Dr. Sam Sheppard's attorney in the second trial. Sam Reese Sheppard is suing the state, claiming his father, Dr. Sam Sheppard, was wrongfully imprisoned for killing his mother at the family home on Lake Erie. The doctor initially was convicted of murder and spent a decade in prison. But the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the verdict because of the effects of pretrial publicity on jurors and witnesses. Sheppard was acquitted at a retrial in 1966 and died four years later.
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F. Lee Bailey, center, heads into the federal courthouse in Orlando, Fla., Monday, March 24, 2003. Bailey defended his right to take $2 million in fees, disputing federal prosecutors' clams that the money came from fraudulent business operations and should be forfeited to the government.
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Attorney F. Lee Bailey boards his personal plane at a local airport after being released from federal prison Friday, April 19, 1996, in Tallahassee, Florida.
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In this Jan. 10, 2011 file photo, F. Lee Bailey answers questions during an interview at his office in Yarmouth, Maine. Bailey has been denied the right to practice law in Maine in a 4-2 decision by Maine's highest court. The ruling Thursday, April 10, 2014, overturns a previous decision by a single justice who found that Bailey was fit to practice law because he was sufficiently rehabilitated after mishandling a client's stocks worth $6 million.
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Attorney F. Lee Bailey, right, meets with inmate Dennis Dechaine at the Maine State Prison, in Warren, Maine, on Wednesday, April 8, 2009. Dechaine is serving a life sentence for the 1988 kidnapping and murder of 12-year-old Sarah Cherry in Bowdoinham. Dechaine has maintained his innocence and last August he petitioned for a new trial based on DNA evidence not available at the time of his trial. Bailey has agreed to be a consultant.

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