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Norton Anthony Russell

Released
Full name:Norton Russell
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Ohio
Support
Civil Liberties
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Biography

Norton Anthony Russell was an engineer of Yellow Springs, Ohio, and one of eight people whose contempt-of-Congress convictions — for refusing to answer the House Un-American Activities Committee — were on appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals in 1958, in the wave of cases that followed the Supreme Court's Watkins decision.

His conviction was ultimately overturned: in Russell v. United States, 369 U.S. 749 (May 21, 1962), the Supreme Court reversed the contempt-of-Congress convictions of Russell and five co-petitioners because their indictments never identified the subject under committee inquiry.

Case

Charges: Contempt of Congress
Sentence: Convicted of contempt of Congress; appealing Verdict as recorded: Convicted of contempt; on appeal Charges as recorded: Contempt of Congress — refusing to answer HUAC
Convicted: Yes