Education and Early Career
Goodale was born July 27, 1933 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His mother, a college professor, was the daughter of the Shakespearean scholar Oscar James Campbell, Jr. who wrote The Readers Encyclopedia of Shakespeare. Goodale graduated from Yale University in 1955, which he attended on the William Brinckerhoff Jackson Scholarship. At Yale, he played on the baseball and hockey teams. He received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Chicago Law School in 1958, which he attended on a National Honor Scholarship.
From 1959 to 1963, he worked for the Wall Street law firm of Lord Day & Lord. That firm was also the long time outside counsel of the New York Times. During this time, he also served for six years in the Army Reserve as a strategic and intelligence research analyst, which influenced his views on overclassification and convinced him it was not a crime to publish classified information.
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