Patrick O'Dea

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1940s
State:Massachusetts
Support
Communism Communist Party USA
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Biography

Patrick O'Dea was a Massachusetts Communist Party leader jailed in 1940 on contempt-of-Congress charges arising from the Dies Committee, alongside fellow state leader Philip Frankfeld. Judge F. Dickinson Letts ordered the two released, holding the contempt citation unconstitutional.

Case

Charges: Contempt of Congress (Dies Committee)
Arrested: 1940
Sentence: Held; released as unconstitutional.
Convicted: Jailed, 1940

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