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Willard Uphaus

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New Hampshire
Support
Civil Liberties Anti-War
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Biography

Dr. Willard Uphaus was the director of World Fellowship, a religious pacifist organization, targeted by New Hampshire's one-man subversion probe under Attorney General Louis Wyman for running peace seminars. He refused on First Amendment grounds to turn over the names of seminar guests; fined in 1955 and fighting the inquiry, he was later jailed for a year for contempt.

Case

Charges: Contempt —
Sentence: $500 fine; later a year in jail Charges as recorded: Contempt — for refusing to give a state subversion probe the names of seminar attendees
Convicted: Fined 1955; case on appeal (later jailed for contempt)