A U.S. Federal Court, finds Poet Ezra Pound permanently unfit to stand trial on April 18, 1958 and orders his immediate release from the St. Elizabeth Hospital for the criminally insane, where the pro-fascist Pound, had been interned for 13 years following a 1945 treason indictment. After his release, Pounds returned to Italy. He died in 1972. More
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