Biography
Martin Mooney was a New York reporter who began a thirty-day jail sentence on Friday, January 17, 1936 for refusing to disclose to a county grand jury the sources of his police-racket articles. The January 20 account uses his experience to introduce a film based on the story; fictional plot events are not entered as facts about his case. The imposed thirty days is not proof of a completed thirty-day imprisonment or a precise release. Daily Worker, January 20, 1936, original PDF page 7. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/dailyworker/1936/v13-n017-NY-jan-20-1936-DW-Q.pdf#page=7
