Robert Watts v. United States

Appellant attended a rally of the W. E. B. DuBois Club at the Sylvan Theater on the Washington Monument grounds. Those attending the rally divided into several discussion groups, one of which appellant joined. The rally and the discussion groups were open to the public.

In the course of a discussion of police-community relations in appellant’s group, a participant said something to the effect that “we should have a better education before we get involved in things of this nature.” According to Freeburger, an investigator for the Army Counter Intelligence Corps who was observing the discussion,…