Description
The 1936 murder of Chief Engineer George Alberts aboard the steamer Point Lobos, and its implications in the Bay Area maritime labor movement of the 1930s; discussion by defendants, defense attorneys, and the captain of the Point Lobos of the 1934 San Francisco General Strike and the maritime unions; radicalism and law enforcement in the 1930s; Alameda County District Attorney Earl Warren's prosecution of the case; the
King-Ramsay-Conner Defense Committee, 1938-41; the 1939 Harry Bridges deportation hearing; Governor Culbert Olson and the 1941 parole of convicted defendants King, Ramsay, and Conner; Governor Warren's pardon of Ramsay.