[1] His father, then a lieutenant commander, was serving on the USS Drum in the Pacific Ocean theatre of World War II and did not learn of his birth until three weeks later.
[6] After his law school graduation, Rindskopf moved to Atlanta, Georgia to join the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (the "Inc. Fund") as cooperating council, while his wife worked at an Emory University-connected legal organization; the two quickly began making their mark in the civil rights movement.
[5] In his short career, Rindskopf represented clients in a number of notable cases, including several before the Supreme Court.
Dennis Davis, who received an undesirable discharge two weeks before the end of his two-year tour in response to his publication of a clandestine newspaper known as The Last Harass.
[9] Later that year he defended Jack K. Riley, an African American soldier stationed at Fort Bragg convicted of distribution of anti-war literature in what he referred to as a "frame-up".
[12] Rindskopf was driving on Georgia State Route 197 west of Clayton on October 9, 1971 when his car ran off the road and overturned, killing him.
[5] His wife bequeathed The Lady with Blue Face, a collage by African American artist Romare Bearden, to the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, Georgia in his memory.
He represented one man on Georgia's death row, whose conviction was overturned by the US Supreme Court for noncompliance with its decision in Miranda v. Arizona.