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Jacob Daniel Webster Greene

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Indiana
Support
Anti-War
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Biography

Jacob Daniel Webster Greene was prosecuted for criminal libel in Harrison County, Indiana for distributing antiwar reprints critical of President Truman and the Korean War. He was first committed to a hospital for the criminally insane for six months 'for observation' — then found sane — and held for trial.

The National Guardian identifies Eugene Feller as prosecutor and S. Morris Wilson as the judge who committed Jacob Daniel Webster Greene during his antiwar criminal-libel prosecution. It reports county-jail custody from December 18 to January 4, followed by six months at the Michigan City colony before psychiatrists pronounced him sane. The reported later arraignment was prospective. These distinct stages do not establish a verified final discharge date or a complete measured custody timeline.

National Guardian, September 4, 1952, page 7.

Case

Charges: Criminal libel.
Arrested: Dec 18, 1951
Incarcerated: Dec 18, 1951
Sentence: Six months' psychiatric commitment; awaited trial.
Prosecutor: Eugene Feller
Judge: S. Morris Wilson