Skip to content

Marion Bachrach

Released
Date of death:01. 01. 1957
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Support
Communism Marxism Communist Party USA
Marion Bachrach

Biography

Communist Party USA journalist and longtime aide to Congressman John Bernard, sister of CP leader John Abt. Indicted in the 1951 second-string Foley Square Smith Act case but severed from the 1952 trial after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer; never convicted.

Case

Charges: Smith Act (18 U.S.C. § 2385)
Sentence: Verdict as recorded: No — severed from trial due to terminal illness; never tried
Convicted: No