Sidney Turoff

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New York
Support
Civil Liberties
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Biography

Sidney Turoff was convicted of contempt of Congress by a federal jury in Buffalo in December 1959 for refusing to give the House Un-American Activities Committee the names of members of an alleged Communist Party 'steel section.'

Case

Charges: Contempt of Congress
Sentence: Convicted of contempt; appealed Verdict as recorded: Convicted by a Buffalo federal jury (1959) Charges as recorded: Contempt of Congress — refusing to name alleged Communists to HUAC
Convicted: Yes

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