Exceptions to Silence

About the Book

One cannot work for JFK and work with Bill Clinton and not have a personal story or two to tell. Neither can one litigate civil and criminal cases for 37 years and not have a yarn or two to spin. I did, and I do. Exceptions to Silence is it.

AN ILLUSION'S ECHO is a guaranteed, first-edition rendition of yet another JFK sexual encounter as told through the eyes of an 18-year-old eye-witness. THE BACKROOM BOYS comically discusses Bill Clinton and his pals as they worked for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during the height of the Vietnam War conflict. The balance of PART ONE deals with the author's life in Washington, D.C. - as a student and as a roommate - during the 1960s (these yarns are as truthful as some of them are laughable).

PART TWO contains true stories involving real civil and criminal cases litigated by the author - stories involving the "worst of the worst" and guaranteed to show the reader at least three things: bad guys do not always finish last; an ounce of common sense is worth more than a pound of legalise; and, pre-frontal lobotomies would actually elevate some "human" intelligence quotients a minimum of at least 100 points.

Lastly, SHIP HIGH IN TRANSIT fulfils a promise the author made to himself upon retirement, viz, to show that the title's acronym fully applies to some piranhas and vermin who actually hold licenses to practice law but utilize them to practice voodoo. Caveat emptor!

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About the Author

Charles L. Parks was educated in Washington, D.C., receiving A.A., B.A. and J.D. degrees from the American University. He was a trial attorney for 37 years, litigating civil and criminal cases in state and federal courts throughout the Southeast. He retried from practice in June, 2004. He won million dollar civil verdicts and successfully represented defendants (innocent and guilty) in murder, rape, robbery, burglary, sexual abuse, and other criminal cases. He taught and lectured in insurance law and, early in his career, adjusted major fire and other casualty claims. Although Exceptions to Silence is his first effort at "book-writing," he claims qualification due to the numerous appellate cases he fully briefed and personally argued.

From September, 1959 through June, 1967 he was a member of the staff of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. He served as an assistant clerk on the executive committee (86th Congress) of which John F. Kennedy was a member. He worked with Bill Clinton from January, 1966 through June, 1967. Exceptions to Silence shares some of his experiences with these men, his co-workers and roommates, and his life in Washington in general.

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