Bernadette Doyle

Released
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:California
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

Bernadette Doyle was a California Communist Party leader — a perennial candidate who had once polled 600,000 votes statewide — arrested in the 1951 Smith Act roundup and held on low bail relative to her co-defendants.

Case

Charges: Smith Act — conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the government (California CP leader).
Sentence: Convicted; reversed after Yates (1957).
Convicted: Arrested 1951; tried with the California Smith Act group.

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