Pablo Garcia

Released
Gender:Male
Race:Hispanic
Era:1950s
State:Puerto Rico
Support
Communism Puerto Rican Independence Communist Party of Puerto Rico
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Biography

Pablo Garcia Rodriguez was a Harvard-trained civil-rights lawyer and member of the central committee of the Communist Party of Puerto Rico, arrested October 20, 1954 in the first Smith Act prosecution ever brought in Puerto Rico. He was one of eleven defendants awaiting trial in San Juan in an English-language proceeding their lawyers said they could not understand.

Case

Charges: Smith Act — conspiracy to advocate the overthrow of the government
Sentence: Faced a mainland prison term if convicted
Convicted: Arrested October 1954; awaiting trial in Puerto Rico

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