Biography
David Kaplan was jailed thirty-six days in the 1935 Bridgeport, Connecticut student-strike case, one of the youth free-speech prosecutions of the year.
The November 12, 1934 Daily Worker names him among seven Bridgeport anti-Nazi demonstrators beaten and arrested at the October 26 protest against a visit by the German consul-general. Kaplan, Kieve Liskofsky, Katherine Zematis and Emily Mureika were acquitted. This is distinct from the later Bridgeport student-strike episode; the report does not establish an exact discharge. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1934/v11-n270-NY-nov-12-1934-DW-LOC.pdf#page=1
In his first-person Labor Defender account, David Kaplan states that he was arrested for participating in the strike of 3,000 Central High School students in Bridgeport, placed under $1,000 bail, and sentenced the following day to three months. He describes an appeal and second trial reducing the imposed term to thirty-six days, and identifies his place of confinement as Fairfield County Jail. The account supplies this school-strike context for the thirty-six-day sentence already recorded; it does not establish exact custody endpoints or thirty-six days actually completed. Labor Defender, June 1935, printed pages 36.