Biography
Bernard Silber was a New York unionist prosecuted for refusing to answer House Un-American Activities Committee questions about alleged Communist association. A federal grand jury indicted him on August 4, 1958. He was convicted and sentenced to four months in jail and a $100 fine, but the reviewed record does not establish that he served the sentence. The Supreme Court reversed the conviction in 1962, and a jury acquitted him at his retrial on March 6, 1964.
