Joseph Zack Kornfeder [SEP] cause of death
. Gitlow said, "I discussed the conduct of this case. I discussed the attorneys in the case. I discussed the members of the panel."
Personal life and death.
Zack was married and had at least one child. His wife's imprisonment in the USSR and son's upbringing there caused him to become an anti-communist.
Joseph Zack Kornfeder died age 65 of a heart attack while checking into a Washington, D.C. hotel on May Day, May 1, 1963.
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Joseph Zack Kornfeder
Joseph Zack Kornfeder (1898–1963), AKA Joseph Zack, as "Joe" to friends, and sometimes surnamed "Kornfedder" in the press, was an Austro-Hungarian-born American who was a founding member and top leader of the Communist Party of America in 1919, Communist Party USA leader, and Comintern representative to South America (1930-1931) before quitting the Party in 1934. After his wife was arrested by the secret police during the Great Terror (1937-1938), Zack