Highlights from the Career of Harold R. Medina U.S. Circuit Court Judge. As Recorded and Illustrated by Selections from over Fifty Years of Press Coverage [1909-1961]

Photostatic reproductions of press articles (chiefly New York City), unpaginated, approx. [200] ff., printed on rectos only. 4to, [New York: circa 1961]. Blue buckram, bound for Judge Harold R. Medina with his name on upper board. Some minor curling at edges. Fine.

Record of press clippings for Harold R. Medina, Princeton class of 1909, law studies at Columbia where he was later a professor before becoming a judge. The majority of the clippings refer to Medina’s role as the judge who presided over the 1949 trial of Communist conspirators in New York City. The trial of party chairman William Z. Foster, Gus Hall, and 10 other prominent Reds was the culmination of several years of FBI investigation of Communist activities. It garnered worldwide publicity and lasted nine contentious months against a backdrop of acrimonious exchanges between Judge Medina and the defense attorneys. Medina charged the defense with delaying tactics, trifling, unnecessary jury challenges, and contempt; the defense attorneys claimed judicial bias, racism in the jury selection, and infringements upon the freedom of the press

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