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Victor Johnson

Released
Gender:Male
Race:White
Era:1910s
State:Illinois
Time Imprisoned:
5 Years 2 Months
Support
Anti-War Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
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Biography

Victor Johnson is listed in Stephen M. Kohn, American Political Prisoners, page 109, as beginning a prison sentence on April 20, 1918 and serving in Oahu Prison, Honolulu. Further personal details and the precise charge require original prison or court records. The adjoining entries for C. H. Kamann and Harry F. Kane are different people and are not part of his biography.

1920s remaining-entry review: Kohn page 109 contains a short individual entry for Victor Johnson followed by separate entries for C. H. Kamann and Harry F. Kane. The imported description included those adjoining biographies and the case assigned Kane-related Chicago mass-trial and five-year language to Johnson. This demonstrable prose/case conflation is removed. Existing date fields are not altered merely because independent original confirmation is unavailable. No photograph of an unlinked cyclist, Centralia juror, Australian serviceman, or later labor prisoner is substituted.

Source

Case

Charges: Wartime political prosecution; the specific charge and case docket require verification. The source places Johnson at Oahu Prison, Honolulu, not the Chicago IWW mass trial.
Arrested: Apr 20, 1918
Incarcerated: Apr 20, 1918
Released: June 1923
Sentence: Length of sentence not established by the individual Victor Johnson entry. The five-year Chicago sentence in the adjoining source paragraph belongs to Harry F. Kane, not Johnson.