Biography
Paul Bowen was a Seattle Smith Act defendant, one of those tried in the Northwest prosecutions for conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the government. He was acquitted, and afterward spoke publicly about the case.
Paul L. Bowen was the leader of the Seattle Negro Labor Council and a Communist prosecuted under the Smith Act during the McCarthy era. He was convicted on October 9, 1953, of conspiring to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government.
National Guardian, October 19, 1953, national page 16: The paper names Paul L. Bowen, John S. Daschbach, Henry P. Huff, Barbara Hartle and Terry Pettus as convicted by a Seattle federal jury October 9 of conspiracy to teach and advocate violent overthrow. It says the trial began April 15 with seven defendants, that Karley Larsen separated his defense and was acquitted, and that William J. Pennock died August 2. It does not supply an individualized sentence or a completed term of imprisonment. This contemporary verdict report does not supersede later appellate outcomes. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/national-guardian/1953-10-19-5-52-nat-guardian.pdf
