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- Richmond Times Dispatch, Virginia, Friday, February 18, 1944
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Carrington Bass, Jr., are receiving congratulations on the birth of a son, Kenneth Carrington Bass, III, February 11 at Stuart Circle Hospital.
Mrs. Bass is the former Miss Mary Bennett Owen, of Jarratt.
Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Texas, Sunday, 3 May 2009
Justice official Kenneth Bass III dies at 65
WASHINGTON - Kenneth C. Bass III, the Justice Department official who helped write the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows the federal government with the approval of a special court to spy on foreigners suspected of espionage in the United States, died of cancer April 27 at his home in Great Falls, Va. He was 65,
Bass, an appellate lawyer with Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein and Fox since 2002 and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's law school, was a frequent commentator on national security issues throughout his career. He also was appointed by then-Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., to a 1987 advisory panel that looked into Judge Robert Bork's background when Bork was nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. OAS_AD('Position3');
Bass also played a pivotal role in recent intellectual property issues. He was co-counsel in a major patent law case that went to the Supreme Court, principal author of IBM's brief in a case that led to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's acceptance of patents for software on computer media and co-author of the petitioner's brief in Wal-Mart v. Samara, in which the Supreme Court established a significant principle for protection of product packaging.
His work on FISA, which President Jimmy Carter signed in 1978, came in response to extensive investigations by Senate committees into the legality of domestic intelligence activities by the FBI and CIA, some of them stemming from the complex of crimes that became known as the Watergate scandal. He was the first person to be chief of the Justice Department's Office of Intelligence Policy and Review.
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Bassett Family Association Database
1944 - 2009 (65 years)