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Joseph Dimow

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

Joseph Dimow was a Connecticut Communist who held local party offices in the late 1940s and served on the party's state committee in 1953–54. He was one of the New Haven Smith Act defendants indicted and tried in 1954 during the McCarthy era for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government; the convictions were reversed by the Second Circuit in United States v. Silverman (1957).

Case

Charges: Smith Act — conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government
Sentence: Convicted under the Smith Act; reversed in United States v. Silverman
Convicted: Indicted and tried 1954; conviction reversed on appeal (1957)