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Charles Nusser

Released
Date of birth:1914
Date of death:1993
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:New Jersey
Support
Communism Anti-War Communist Party USA
Charles Nusser

Biography

Charles Nusser was the New Jersey Communist Party secretary arrested in early 1951 under a 1918 state anti-subversive statute for handing out leaflets urging negotiation to end the Korean War. His bail was set at $30,000, then reduced to $1,500, and he was re-arrested in the campaign against the leafleting.

The page 3 June 30 Carnegie report confirms the thirty-day sentence for leaflet distribution protesting the Young Worker school ban and announces an ILD appeal. No completed appeal, discharge date or actual service is given. The existing profile appeared during this review and is reused rather than duplicated. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1935/v12-n156-NAT-jul-01-1935-DW-Q.pdf

Case

Charges: Violating a 1918 New Jersey anti-subversive statute.
Arrested: Jan 1, 1951
Incarcerated: Jan 10, 1951
Prosecutor: Raymond Leahey (city attorney, January 10, 1951 proceeding)
Judge: John L. McGuire (January 10, 1951 bail proceeding)