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Carl Lambert

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

Carl Lambert was among the California Communist Party leaders arrested in 1951 under the Smith Act and held on $75,000 bail in the San Francisco group of 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.