Biography
Eileen Fujimoto was a union stenographer and the wife of Communist Party Hawaii chairman Charles Fujimoto, and was among the Hawaii Seven prosecuted under the Smith Act during the McCarthy era. She was convicted in July 1953 of conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government.
The Fujimoto court record and the Supreme Court’s Sawyer opinion identify Jon Wiig as the judge presiding over the Hawaii Smith Act trial.
Court records name Eileen Toshiko Fujimoto. Fisk reports a week jailed awaiting post-verdict bail; convictions were reversed in January 1958.
Fujimoto, 107 F. Supp. 865, counsel roster; Fisk, The Fire Last Time, printed pages 3026–3027.
