
Episode 7: Rinse, Repeat
Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra
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The Death of Judge Edward Eichert
Judge Edward Eichert considered but decided not to hold them all in contempt of court. He was worried about further provoking these members of Congress who had been criticizing the sedition trial so vociferously. In retrospect, it seems clear that something was going to break during the Great Sedition Trial on November 29, 1944. The judge went home and then he died in his sleep that night.
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