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Sam Jessop (Turtle Creek unemployed organizer)

Full name:Sam Jessop
Era:1930s
State:Pennsylvania
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Biography

PDF page 4 identifies the Turtle Creek Unemployed Councils organizer and says he was released from Blawnox after five weeks of a one-year sentence. It relates the case to a farm sale of twenty-three cows and implements for $1.10 and credits a mass defense campaign. Five weeks is a reported elapsed period, without enough exact endpoints to manufacture an admission day. Source: https://www.marxists.org/history/usa/pubs/labordefender/1935/v11n01-jan-1935-orig-LD.pdf

Contemporary original newspaper source; individual page evidence retained in review audit 897. Exact individual custody dates and duration are not inferred from relative dates or collective claims.

Case

Charges: Prosecution arising from resistance to a farm sale; statutory count unprinted.
Sentence: One year imposed; actual release after a reported five weeks at Blawnox. Exact dates unknown.