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Offered is a lot of eleven separate issues of the "Smith Act Trial Report" published in 1952 by the Citizens Emergency Defense Conference out of New York City. Offered are Issues 1 (April 10, 1952), 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 (June 16, 1952), and 22 (November 17, 1952). Each issue measures 8-1/2" by 11" and contains four pages, including front and rear covers. As stated, "The Citizens Emergency Defense Conference, at Room 604, 401 Broadway, New York 13, N. Y., was established for the specific purpose of defending the 16 Communists on trial at the Foley Square Federal Court and charged under the Smith Act. Victory for the defense will start the repeal of the Smith Act. But to achieve our goal FUNDS must be raised to issue literature, buy radio time, publish advertisements and organize wide public support." The New York trial of sixteen "second-tier" officials of the Communist Party of the United States of America (CPUSA) involved the following players: Trial Judge (Edward J. Dimock); At the Prosecution Table (Myles J. Lane, David L. Marks, Roy M. Cohen, and four others); At the Defense Table (John T. McTernan, Frank R. Serri, Mary Kaufman, and James Wright ["able young Negro member of the Washington, D.C. and Maryland bar"]); Defendants (Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Pettis Perry [both acting as their own attorneys], Marion Bachrach, Isidore Begun, Alexander Bittelman, George Blake Charney, Betty Gannett, Simon W. Gerson, V. J. Jerome, Claudia Jones, Arnold Johnson, Albert Lannon, Jacob Mindel, William Weinstone, Louis Weinstock, and Alexander Trachtenberg). The Reports contain updates of the Foley Square Smith Act Trial, which began publishing when the jury was being selected, commentary, reports from the press, short excerpts of the testimony, and news of activities of the Citizens Emergency Defense Conference as well as appeals for contributions. Topics include: Prospective Jurors Get the "Emily Post" Test: Flunk if Jury Clerk Doesn't Like Their Looks; Coming Up: A Witness the Prosecution Is Supposed to be Investigating For Perjury [Louis F. Budenz]; Judge [Edward J.] Dimock Concedes Fair Trial in This Case "Difficult"; Court Room Line-Up; Prosecution's Opening Recalls Justice Douglas' Dissent [in Dennis v. United States 1951]; "Star of First Day's Performance" [Elizabeth Gurley Flynn]; Excerpts from Pettis Perry Address to Jury; Prosecution Wants Monopoly To Define Marxism-Leninism! [short excerpt between Roy M. Cohen and Court]; [Louis F.] Budenz Cross-Examination Lifts Lid on "Record of a Moral and Spiritual Leper"; The Lie About Elizabeth Gurley Flynn; Louis Budenz' 14 Days Testimony Proves Government's "Evidence" False; What is the Alleged Conspiracy?; The Prosecution makes "An Offer of Proof" [the reading, by the CPUSA, of V. I. Lenin's 1902 pamphlet "What Is to be Done?"]; "In This Nightmarish Way" ["Defendant Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, acting as her own attorney, backed up defense counsel objections, said: 'This trial is literally being smothered in miscellaneous and disconnected quotations which nobody now can keep track of" - "For the government to pretend that it is conveying a fair impression of Marxist teachings in this nightmarish way, and that we are therefore responsible, is only to provide the form of due process while utterly destroying its substance"]. Previously folded twice (for mailing purposes); printed name and address of subscriber to rear covers.
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