UNITED STATES v. POWELL

No. 35065.

156 F.Supp. 526 (1957)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. John William POWELL et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. California, S. D.

November 1, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lloyd H. Burke, U. S. Atty., Robert H. Schnacke, Asst. U. S. Atty., San Francisco, Cal., Charles R. Renda, Special Atty., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff.

A. L. Wirin, Los Angeles, Cal., Doris Brin Walker, San Francisco, Cal., for defendants John William Powell and another.

Stanley Faulkner, New York City, for defendant Julian Schuman.


GOODMAN, District Judge.

The three defendants are charged in a thirteen-count indictment with engaging in seditious activities intended to adversely affect the armed forces of the United States while the United States was at war in Korea from July 7, 1950 until July 27, 1953.

During the entire period of the Korean War and for several years prior thereto, the defendant John Powell was the owner and editor and the defendants Sylvia Powell and Julian Schuman...

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