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Nathan Kaplan

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1920s
State:New York
Support
Communism
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Biography

Nathan Kaplan was one of the workers arrested in the July 3, 1928 Wall Street demonstration against U.S. intervention in Nicaragua, and — unlike the others, who drew five days — was held for the grand jury on a framed felonious-assault charge arising from the police attack on the "Hands Off Nicaragua" meeting.

Case

Charges: Felonious assault
Arrested: Jul 3, 1928
Sentence: Jailed on a felonious-assault frame-up (the others got five days). Charges as recorded: Felonious assault (July 3, 1928 Wall Street anti-imperialist demonstration; alleged frame-up)
Convicted: Held for grand jury, 1928