John Zydok

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Michigan
Support
Communism Labor Organizing Communist Party USA
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Biography

John Zydok, a Detroit Communist born in the old Russian empire, was the subject of one of the first deportation orders issued under the new McCarran Act and was held in the Wayne County jail; a federal appeals court ordered him freed on bail.

Case

Charges: Deportation under the McCarran Act for Communist Party membership.
Sentence: Detention pending deportation; ordered released on bail.
Convicted: Among the first McCarran Act deportation orders (1950); appealed.

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