Biography
Seymour Peck was a New York Times editor indicted for contempt of Congress after he refused to name associates before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee. He was briefly jailed while bail was arranged after a personal check was refused; journalist I. F. Stone helped obtain the $1,000 bond. A jury convicted Peck on March 26, 1957 and imposed a $500 fine, a suspended 30-day sentence, and one year of probation. On June 11 the court entered a judgment of acquittal under the Supreme Court’s Watkins decision. The brief bail-related confinement cannot be measured exactly from the available record.
