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gptkbp:instanceOf
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gptkb:series_of_federal_trials
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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Communist trials
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gptkbp:country
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gptkb:United_States
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gptkbp:judge
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gptkb:Harold_Medina
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gptkbp:location
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gptkb:New_York_City
other U.S. cities
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gptkbp:mainCharge
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advocacy of violent overthrow of the government
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gptkbp:notableDefendant
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gptkb:Robert_G._Thompson
gptkb:Eugene_Dennis
gptkb:Gil_Green
gptkb:John_Gates
gptkb:Elizabeth_Gurley_Flynn
gptkb:William_Z._Foster
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gptkbp:prosecutedBy
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gptkb:U.S._Department_of_Justice
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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gptkb:Communist_Party_USA
gptkb:Yates_v._United_States
gptkb:McCarthyism
gptkb:Smith_Act
gptkb:Stack_v._Boyle
gptkb:Dennis_v._United_States
anti-communism
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gptkbp:result
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appeals
convictions
Supreme Court review
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gptkbp:resultedIn
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imprisonment of Communist Party leaders
legal precedents on free speech
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gptkbp:significance
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gptkb:Cold_War_history
First Amendment jurisprudence
civil liberties debate
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gptkbp:took_place
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1949-1958
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Eugene_Dennis
gptkb:History_of_the_Communist_Party_of_the_United_States
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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6
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http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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Smith Act trials
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