Carl Ross

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:California
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
No image available

Biography

Carl Ross was a Communist arrested in August 1953 and tried in San Francisco for sheltering Smith Act fugitives Robert Thompson and Sidney Steinberg during the McCarthy era. He was convicted of harboring on April 26, 1954.

Case

Charges: Harboring Communist Smith Act fugitives
Arrested: Aug 27, 1953
Sentenced: May 3, 1954
Incarcerated: May 3, 1954
Sentence: Two years. Unable to raise his appeal bond, he served the sentence and was released upon its completion by June 19, 1956 (the Supreme Court petition of that date noted he had finished his term); exact day unconfirmed, and federal good-time credit may have produced an earlier discharge. He was not a petitioner in the 1957 Supreme Court case. Verdict as recorded: Yes — jury verdict April 26, 1954
Convicted: Yes

Related Cases

Ben Dobbs Ben Dobbs Dorothy Ray Healey Dorothy Ray Healey Frank Spector Frank Spector Henry Steinberg Henry Steinberg Rose Chernin Rose Chernin Al Richmond Al Richmond William Schneiderman William Schneiderman Hugh Bryson Albert Lima