John
Doar, who was a leader in the federal government’s legal efforts to
dismantle segregation in the South during the most volatile period of
the civil rights movement in the 1960s, and who returned to government
service to lead the team that made the constitutional case for the
impeachment of President Richard M. Nixon, died on Tuesday at his home
in Manhattan. He was 92.
The cause was congestive heart failure, his son Robert said.
Mr.
Doar prosecuted some of the most notorious cases of murder and violence
in the South in the ’60s, and was instrumental in changing the region’s
pattern of race-based politics based on voter discrimination. In 1974
Mr. Doar, a Republican, was named chief counsel to the House Judiciary
Committee investigating the Watergate scandal.
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