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Herman Liveright

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Louisiana
Support
Civil Liberties
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Biography

Herman Liveright was a former New Orleans television programmer (WDSU) cited and then indicted for contempt of Congress in 1956 for declining, on grounds other than the Fifth Amendment, to tell the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee whether he had ever been a Communist.

Case

Charges: Contempt of Congress
Sentence: Indicted for contempt of Congress Charges as recorded: Contempt of Congress — for defying the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Convicted: Cited 1956; indicted December 1956