THE NEW YORK TIMES, April 29, 1936

* Jehovah's Witnesses jailed in Orange NJ
* Under Joseph Franklin Rutherford leadership
* Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society leader

The top of page 5 has a very small and discrete one column heading: "15 Jehovah Witnesses Jailed" (see image)
Complete with 44 pages, light toning and a little wear at the margins, generally nice.

Background: The arrests of these fifteen Jehovah’s Witnesses in Orange, New Jersey, represent a crucial flashpoint in the history of American civil liberties, acting as the ground-level catalyst for a legal campaign that fundamentally redefined the First Amendment. Under the unyielding leadership of Joseph F. Rutherford, the Watch Tower Society weaponized these seemingly minor municipal arrests—typically for trivial infractions like "peddling without a license" or violating local Sunday "Blue Laws"—by systematically refusing to comply with local ordinances and appealing convictions all the way to the highest courts. This aggressive legal strategy transformed local police blotter entries into landmark U.S. Supreme Court victories later in the decade, such as Lovell v. City of Griffin (1938) and Schneider v. State of New Jersey (1939). By successfully arguing that requiring a police permit to distribute religious literature constituted prior restraint, the Witnesses established enduring legal precedents that expanded freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and the free exercise of religion not just for themselves, but for civil rights activists, political dissidents, and every American citizen thereafter.