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Go to HomepageReel Number: 221457-08
Color: Black and White
Sound: SIL and SD
Year / Date: 1949
Country: USA
Location: New York City,NYC
TC Begins: 03:09:21
TC Ends: 03:11:21
Duration: 00:02:00
The Telenews Daily - Communists Convicted 03:09:46 Si. Women (wives?) outside Federal Courthouse in NYC. News cameramen & photographers. Women walking down steps. Int. w/ defendants posing for press. 03:10:07 ?? out & into US Marshall van, other defendants following. Doors closed & US Marshall Van padlocked & leaves. 03:10:47 “The verdict of guilty in the trial of the eleven Communists in New York City represents to me a verdict of guilty for the American people against the forces of Communism which Stalin has been trying to establish in this United States of ours for a long, long time. It also represents a victory over the forces which have been fighting our free enterprise system of economy. 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.