Joseph Cort

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Massachusetts
Support
Communism
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Biography

Joseph Cort was a physician and former Communist who faced the doctor draft and loss of his citizenship. Under that pressure he fled to Czechoslovakia in 1954.

Case

Charges: Draft-evasion / citizenship-revocation pressure that drove him into exile.
Sentence: Exile.
Convicted: Fled to Czechoslovakia (1954).

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