Biography
William Robert Lyman Jr. was associated with Detroit’s National Workers League and the distribution of far-right political literature. A contemporary account entered in the Congressional Record describes him supporting himself through odd jobs and literature sales while attending the Washington trial. He was named in the January 3, 1944 Washington indictment alleging conspiracy to undermine military loyalty under the Smith Act. The mass trial ended in a mistrial on December 7, 1944. The indictment was dismissed in December 1946; no conviction resulted in this case.
