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What had the prosecution tried to prove? The judge's summary of Prosecutor McGohey's case was a precis of the strategy of Red revolution...
...themselves around the crowded room, against its marble walls. Eleven bosses of the Communist Party, on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, now at the hour of reckoning, sat inside the rail behind their five lawyers. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, their unsmiling antagonist, rested his grey head on his hand...
This was getting to be a familiar experience for defense witnesses in the trial of the eleven top U.S. Communist leaders. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey had kept another witness, Daily Worker Editor John Gates, squirming for six grueling days on that same stand...
After spinning a fine story of what a dedicated idealist he was, Communist Gates had been asked a few pertinent questions. He had testified, had he not, that he was born in New York? Yes. Then McGohey produced a relief application that Gates had once filled out in Youngstown, Ohio, giving Lakewood, N.J. as his birthplace. Had Gates been using that name since 1932? Yes. McGohey fished out a 1937 passport application in which he gave his name as Isriel Ragenstrich. Had Gates not gone to jail twice? Yes. McGohey confronted him with a previous sworn statement, declaring...
Expendable Informer. The ordeal of defendant after defendant had become almost a ritual. Backed by the FBI's own underground and the bales of reports which the FBI had been collecting since before World" War II, Prosecutor McGohey often seemed to know more about the Communists and their allies than the 'Reds themselves...