His parents were Jewish, and they owned a small company which manufactured gardening and plumbing equipment.
He was credited with disproving the Belin Theory, which related to a city bus ticket in Lee Harvey Oswald's pocket helping him escape to Mexico.
However, controversy arose when \a probe into Redlich's past and found that he was on the Emergency Civil Liberties Committee, [5] which defended very controversial cases, including those of political activists and communists that the ACLU and other rights group did not.
[citation needed] Following a leak to right-wing politicians, on May 5, 1964, Ralph F. Beermann accused Redlich of defending Cuba on various issues.
[citation needed] In 1960, Redlich joined the faculty of the New York University School of Law.
[citation needed] Redlich was chairman of the American Jewish Congress national governing council.