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August 16, 1914 Frank Wilkinson born in Charlevoix Michigan
1917 Wilkinson family moved to Arizona
1925 Wilkinson family moved to California
1927 Wilkinson family moved to Beverly Hills
1936 Frank Wilkinson graduates from UCLA
Summer 1936-end of 1937 Trip to Europe and the Middle East
1939 Frank Wilkinson and Jean Benson marry
1939 - 1952 Frank runs tours of housing in Los Angeles
1942 Jeffry Wilkinson born
1942-44 Frank manages 4 different housing projects
1945 Tony Wilkinson born
1945-52 Frank hired as assistant to director of LA Housing Authority
1947 Jo Wilkinson born
Aug 29, 1952 Eminent domain hearing – asked political affiliations,
Declined to answer
1952 Subpoenaed to appear before California’s “Little HUAC” –
Took the Fifth
October 28, 1952 Fired from LA Housing Authority
1955 Alexander Meiklejohn testified before Senate Subcommittee on Constitutional Rights
1956 Subpoenaed to appear before US House HUAC in Los Angeles - Took the First
1957 Frank and family move to New York to join ECLC
Meiklejohn drafts petition to Congress on HUAC
1958 Subpoenaed to appear before HUAC in Atlanta Took the First (272 F.2d 183 (5th Circuit 1959))
1960 Formation of National Committee to Abolish HUAC
1961 Supreme Ct ruled 5-4 Against Frank in contempt of Congress misdemeanor case (under 2 USC section 192) the decision in the case is 365 US 399 (1961)
May 1,1961- February 1,1962 Frank goes to jail
1962 Frank meets Donna
1966 Frank marries Donna
1980 Wilkinson files suit against the FBI for spying and neutralization

1986 Wilkinson v. FBI decision 633 F. Supp. 336, 338

ASSASS INATION ATTEMPT NOTES

In August 1986, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Griesa ruled in favor of the Socialist Workers Party in a civil suit against the Attorney General, declaring "the FBI's disruption activities, surreptitious entries and use of informants" to be "violations of the constitutional rights of the SWP." Among numerous FBI crimes, Judge Griesa's decision identified at least 208 "surreptitious entries," though the specific Detroit case was not listed. For the text of the decision, see A Fight for Political Rights (Political Rights Defense Fund, n.d.). Noam Chomsky, Domestic Terrorism, Notes on the State System of Oppression

For analysis and texts of the Media documents, see Paul Cowan, Nick Egleson, and Nat Hentoff, State Secrets (Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973)

Not long after World War II ended, President Truman put into operation the repressive measures which laid the basis for what is misleadingly called "McCarthyism." The Mundt-Nixon bill calling for the registration of the Communist party was reported out of Nixon's House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1948. Senate liberals objected, and after a Truman veto they proposed as a substitute "the ultimate weapon of repression: concentration camps to intern potential troublemakers on the occasion of some loosely defined future 'Internal Security Emergency'," 33 including, as one case, "insurrection within the United States in aid of a foreign enemy." 34 This substitute was advocated by Benton, Douglas, Graham, Kefauver, Kilgore, Lehman, and Humphrey, then a freshman senator. Humphrey later voted against the bill, though he did not retreat from his concentration camp proposal. In fact, he was concerned that the conference committee had brought back "a weaker bill, not a bill to strike stronger blows at the Communist menace, but weaker blows." The problem with the new bill was that those interned in the detention centers would have "the right of habeas corpus so they can be released and go on to do their dirty business." 35

Pravda!! David Hoffman, Politics of Assassination, 031002
On March 4, 1964, Wilkinson gave a speech at the home of a supporter. He later learned that there had been a plot to assassinate him on this date, and that the FBI had been aware of this plot, but had done nothing either to prevent the assassination or to warn him of the impending danger. In fact, the commander of the local police department's "Anti-Subversive Detail" had actually staked out the home to watch the assassination take place.
Assassination Attempt:

Criley FBI v. the First Amendment, p. 70-71

“Indicative of the close working relationship [between the local police “Red Squads” and the FBI] was a wire from the Los Angeles Field Office [FBI] to the Director informing him of an assassination plot against Frank Wilkinson. The act was scheduled to be carried out on March 4, 1964 while Wilkinson was addressing an ACLU meeting in a private home. The FBI’s confidential source for this information was the head of the Los Angeles Police Anti-Subversive Detail. Whatever police action was contemplated was left to the LAPD, which planned a stakeout at the site of the projected assassination. The following day the Field Office was informed that no attempt on Wilkinson’s life had taken place. No further reference occurs in the files and apparently no steps were taken by either the LAPD or the FBI to inform Wilkinson of the assassination plot. As the FBI memo notes:

‘Wilkinson identified as Communist Party member in past and in recent years associated with communist-dominated groups such as Citizens Committee to Preserve American Freedoms and National Committee to Abolish House Un-American Activities Committee, devoted to abolishing the House Committee on Un-American Activities.’

“Evidently, in a case where the intended victim had such subversive credentials, the FBI had little interest in protecting his life. (FBI files: HQS 100-112434-164, 165)