Earl Browder, the head of the American Communist Party, which had previously been a very harsh critic of the Farmer-Labor Party, traveled to Minnesota and met with Floyd Olson on October 18, 1935. Then, shortly before Liggett's murder, the Minnesota District Committee of the CPUSA had met and, in a complete reversal of their former position, they pledged their support for Olson's administration and denounced the Ligget-Townley Revolt as a Capitalist Plot to disrupt the Farmer-Labor Party from within. Marda Liggett Woodbury, who was only a child when she witnessed her father's murder, grew up to become a professional librarian. She wrote a biography of her father, Stopping the Presses: The Murder of Walter W. Liggett, which was published by University of Minnesota Press in 1998. See also Censorship in the United States List of journalists killed in the United States List of unsolved murders References Books Woodbury, Marda Liggett, Stopping the Presses: The Murder of Walter W. Liggett. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press (1998) External links Stopping the presses: the murder of Walter W. Liggett by Marda Woodbury The Rise of Herbert Hoover by Walter W. Liggett 1886 births 1935 deaths 1935 murders in the United States American anti–World War I activists American newspaper editors Assassinated American journalists Deaths by firearm in Minnesota Journalists killed in the United States Minnesota Farmer–Laborites People acquitted of kidnapping People from the Municipality of Skagway Borough, Alaska People murdered in Minnesota The New York Times people Unsolved murders in the United States People murdered by Jewish-American organized crime