Mystery After B Years Trotsky Murderer Refuses To Talk
Mexico City reporters still cannot pin down the gunman who killed Leon Trotsky in 1940. The suspect, identified by various names, remains in prison serving a 19½ year sentence with parole possible in 1960. He lives in relative comfort, receives visits and maintains a steady income, while outside political shifts and fears of deportation complicate his case.
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Freed Americans describe Soviet camps as hell holes
In Berlin two Americans freed by the Russians call detention camps brutal and deadly. Leland Towers, 28, a San Francisco merchant seaman, says he renounced Communism after years in custody. Homer Cox of Oklahoma City recalls being captured after his Yorktown loss in 1942 and calls the camps a harsher ordeal.
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