Al Richmond

Released
Date of birth:17. 11. 1913
Date of death:09. 11. 1987
Age:73† Deceased
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:California
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
Al Richmond

Biography

Al Richmond was the editor of the San Francisco Daily People's World, the West Coast Communist newspaper. He was among the California Smith Act defendants arrested in 1951 and held on $75,000 bail — one of several Communist editors jailed in the roundup.

Case

Charges: Smith Act — conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the government (newspaper editor / CP leader).
Sentence: Convicted; reversed on appeal.
Convicted: Arrested 1951; convicted; reversed after Yates (1957).

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