Andrew Onda

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Pennsylvania
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Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

Andrew Onda was a western Pennsylvania Communist Party leader prosecuted under both the Pennsylvania state sedition law and the federal Smith Act in 1951, arrested in the FBI's Pittsburgh roundup while a state sedition trial was still underway.

Case

Charges: Pennsylvania sedition law and the Smith Act — as a Pittsburgh Communist Party leader.
Sentence: State sedition conviction (later voided after Pennsylvania v. Nelson, 1956). Verdict as recorded: Convicted under the state sedition law (1951); also a federal Smith Act defendant.
Convicted: Yes

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