People Murdered in Pennsylvania - People Murdered by the Scarfo Crime Family, William Remington, Bryan Kocis, Brian Wells, Ismail Al-Faruqi (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: People murdered by the Scarfo crime family, William Remington, Bryan Kocis, Brian Wells, Ismail al-Faruqi, Nizah Morris, Salvatore Testa, Philip Testa, Pat Spirito, Dave Schultz, Franciscan University murders, Daniel Faulkner, Jonathan Luna, Angelo Bruno, Rebecca Wight, LaToyia Figueroa, Dolores Della Penna, Betsy Aardsma, Tung Kuei-sen, John Whitehead, Shauna Howe, Murder of Jennifer Daugherty, Robert Lee Johnson, Aimee Willard, John Barkoski, Julian Letterlough. Excerpt: William Walter Remington (October 25, 1917 - November 24, 1954) was an economist employed in various federal government positions until his career was interrupted by accusations of espionage made by the Soviet spy and defector Elizabeth Bentley. He was convicted of perjury in connection with these charges in 1953, and murdered in prison in 1954. His death has been cited as one of the few murders attributable to McCarthyism. He was born in New York City and raised in Ridgewood, in Bergen County, New Jersey, by Lillian Maude Sutherland (1888-?) and Frederick C. Remington (1870-1956). His father worked for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; his mother as an art teacher in New York. Remington was admitted to Dartmouth College at age 16, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1939, and earned a Master's degree from Columbia University in 1940. Remington's parents were poor and demanding and he developed a somewhat unconventional and flamboyant personality. From an early age, he was drawn to radical leftist politics, and declared to his friends that he was a Communist when he was 15. In college, he became active with members of the Young Communist League, and later the Communist Party of the United States. In testimony, Remington stated that while he was a Republican when he entered college, he "moved left quite rapidly" and became a radical...