James Harvey Brown

During World War II he was a Navy lieutenant assigned to airborne radar design, working at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other laboratories.

After earning a degree from Southwestern University School of Law, he was both president of and attorney for the National Association of Broadcast Employees and Technicians.

Survivors were his wife, Margaret; a daughter, Dorothy O'Leary; a son, James Harvey Brown, Jr.; and two sisters, Blanche Tibbot and Betty Dykstra.

[9] Brown presided over the preliminary hearing for eleven members of the Black Panther Party who were charged with taking part in a four-hour gun battle with police officers from their Central Avenue headquarters in December 1969.

[10] In 1971 Brown was a leading proponent of a plan to reduce the number of jurors required in a misdemeanor trial from twelve to six.

[3][12] In 1973 he returned to the City Hall to fight a request by Santa Monica Mountains homeowners to curb "unsightly aerials" of amateur radio operators on hillside rooftops that interfered with the view from expensive lots.

Brown said that ham operators had provided valuable communication links in disasters like the Sylmar earthquake and floods.