Biography
Frank A. Feldman was listed in the National Civil Liberties Bureau's March 1919 compilation "War-Time Prosecutions and Mob Violence" among people convicted and jailed under World War I–era free-speech statutes — chiefly the Espionage Act, the Sedition Act, draft-obstruction charges, or wartime state and local laws. Per that record, on 1917 in St. Louis, Missouri, he was sentenced: 3 months for' alleged remarks tending to obstruct the draft. The NCLB — the direct predecessor of the American Civil Liberties Union — compiled these cases from April 1, 1917 to March 1, 1919 as a public record of the wartime suppression of free speech, a free press, and peaceful assembly.
The Senate hearing compilation lists F. A. Feldman in the eastern district of Missouri under section 5, sentenced October 5, 1917 to three months. The matching initials, district and sentence refine the earlier year-only date without supplying admission or release dates.
Amnesty and Pardon for Political Prisoners (1921), printed page 133 (PDF page 140).
