Edward James Smythe

Released
Date of birth:1892
Gender:Male
Era:1940s
State:New York
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Biography

Edward James Smythe was a New York antisemitic agitator associated with the Protestant War Veterans and the publication Our Common Cause. Contemporary reporting investigated his contacts with the Ku Klux Klan and the German American Bund. He was named in the January 3, 1944 Washington indictment alleging conspiracy to undermine military loyalty under the Smith Act. The mass trial ended in a mistrial on December 7, 1944. The indictment was dismissed in December 1946; no conviction resulted in this case.

Case

Charges: Washington sedition prosecution: conspiracy under former 18 U.S.C. § 11 to violate the Smith Act’s military-insubordination provision, former 18 U.S.C. § 9.
Arrested: Apr 18, 1944
Sentence: No sentence imposed
Judge: Edward C. Eicher; Bolitha J. Laws (dismissal proceedings)
Indicted: January 3, 1944 superseding indictment naming thirty defendants.
Convicted: No

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