A Jewish filmmaker was fined $1,500 by Czech police for obstructing an investigation into the death of a U.S. Jewish official in the 1960s. Martin Smok recently approached the police to present a fresh lead into the death of Charles Jordan, an American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee official whose body was found floating in the Vltava River in Prague in 1967.
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