Word: isserman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abraham J. Isserman, one of the defense lawyers in the recent Communist trial in New York, last night characterized the government witnesses in the case as "the most untrustworthy elements of the community." Isserman's speech, delivered to an audience of about 100 in Emerson D, was sponsored by the Harvard chapter of the National Lawyers' Guild...
...right to keep your opinions to yourself has been destroyed by FBI agents who join organizations to spy on the members," Isserman stated. "What is being built up in America is a secret police . . . and where there is a secret police, you can't have a democratic society...
...Isserman has recently been sentenced to four months in jail for contempt of court, on the basis of his behavior during the Communist trial...
Osmund K. Frankel, a director of the American Civil Liberties Union, proceded Isserman on the platform and discussed the constitutional aspects of the Smith Act, under which the 11 Communists were convicted, and prophesied a reversal of the conviction...
...declaration protested specifically the recent contempt of court convictions of George W. Crockett, Jr., Richard Gladstein, Abraham J. Isserman, Louis McCabe, and Harry Sacher, all defense lawyers at the recent Communist conspiracy trial...