Extra (Communist Eleven Defendants, 1949, NYC)

Title - Extra (Communist Eleven Defendants, 1949, NYC) 02:36:57 Police on horse outside United States Court House, Foley Square, many columns. MS of several Black men in suits & topcoats entering w/ police. Photographers on steps, men posing on steps. Press taking notes. CUs. Leaflet: “ Trial of the Twelve, Not 12 men on trial but EVERYBODY!” 02:37:34 LS building w/ crowd in front moving past. MCU Judge Harold Medina on steps. posing. Cameramen pointing turret cameras at Telenews camera. 02:37:49 MCU three men; CU one. Six men posing; others posing. Smith Act; 1949 Trial; Communist Leaders; Gil Green; Eugene Dennis; Henry Winston; John Gates; Gus Hall; Robert G. Thompson; William Z. Foster; Judge Medina; Anti-Communist; Cold War; Red Scare; NOTE: Trial began 21Mar49 & ended mid-October 1949.