 Henry Winston became co @-@ chair of the CPUSA ( with Hall ) in 1966 and was awarded the Order of the October Revolution by the Soviet Union in 1976 . After leaving prison , Carl Winter resumed Party activities , became editor of the Daily Worker in 1966 , and died in 1991 . Gil Green was released from Leavenworth prison in 1961 and continued working with the CPUSA to oppose the Vietnam War . Party leader William Z. Foster , 69 years old at the time of the 1949 trial , was never tried due to ill health ; he retired from the Party in 1957 and died in Moscow in 1961 . 
