Friends of Progress subversive trial
The Friends of Progress subversive trial was brought by the state of California against members of Friends of Progress for being unregistered members of a subversive organization. The Friends of Progress was an antiwar organization formed in August 1941 led by Robert Noble and Ellis Jones. Additional defendants in the trial were Franz K. Ferenz, James MacBride, Joan MacBride, Genevieve Kerigan, Leone Menier, Baron Van Meter, and Daniel Van Meter all of Los Angeles.[1]
An appellate court tossed out the convictions in 1945, finding insufficient evidence that Noble or any of the other persons brought to trial were working for Germany or trying to overthrow the American government.
