Records
Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee — News Update (May 7, 1975)
A May 7, 1975 news update from the Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee on the resistance to the FBI and the federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky. It reports on the "formal request" to interrogate ten people in the Susan Saxe case, the four women then jailed for refusing to testify, the Sixth Circuit's April 28 statement questioning the purpose o...
Statement of the Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee (1975)
The Lexington Grand Jury Defense Fund Committee's statement on the March 8, 1975 jailing of six people — five women and one man, all gay — held in contempt for refusing to answer a federal grand jury in Lexington, Kentucky (the Lexington Six). It argues that using grand juries to coerce testimony, rather than to return indictments, is an abuse of the system...
FBI Harassment / Grand Jury Abuse: A Chronology of Events in Lexington (1975)
A printed chronology of the Lexington grand-jury case: the summer/fall 1974 informant tip that two women resembled the fugitives wanted for a 1970 Boston bank robbery; the January 1975 FBI sweep of the Lexington community; the February 3 subpoenas issued by U.S. Attorney Eugene Siler; Judge Bernard Moynahan's refusal to quash them and his grant of "use immun...
National Coalition of Gay Activists — Special Alert on the FBI Grand-Jury Campaign (1975)
A "Special Alert" from the National Coalition of Gay Activists (New York) warning that an FBI campaign against the feminist and gay movements had emerged in New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut, and Lexington, Kentucky, with the jailing of eight people in the Susan Saxe / Katherine Anne Power investigation. It stresses that none of the jailed were accused of...