Robert Champion Ekins

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Full name:Robert Ekins
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Connecticut
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Biography

Robert Champion Ekins was the Communist Party's Connecticut state secretary in the early 1950s. 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)

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