Lawrence Dennis & Maximilian St. George
A Trial on Trial: The Great Sedition Trial of 1944
First published in 1945 by the National Civil Rights Committee
Torrence California: Institute for Historical Review, 1984
In 1944, when the Allies were on the cusp of winning the Second World War, the Roosevelt administration’s Justice Department put thirty people on trial for “sedition.” The trial was not justice. It was lawfare meant to suppress wise ideas masquerading as a public relations stunt. The story of this lawfare, and the people involved, still resonates eighty years after the trial’s conclusion. (more…)