Tag: June 1959
John Kasper Convicted of Contempt, Tennessee, 1959
In a bold move, the Justice Department is speeding up its opposition to a Supreme Court appeal by notorious racist John Kasper. Kasper, convicted of contempt in relation to the 1956 desegregation disorders at Clinton High School in Tennessee, is seeking to overturn his sentence of six months’ imprisonment. The Government’s opposition brief is expected…
Joseph Barbara Sr, Secret Convention, New York 1957
The sleepy New York town of Apalachin was abuzz with high-stakes crime 18 months ago, when 150 top hoodlums converged on a sprawling 150,000-square-foot estate for a secret convention that would go down in history as the infamous ‘crime convention’. The Apalachin gathering, held at the Joseph Barbara Sr. home, has now spawned a series…
