Be the Judge, Be the Jury : The Alger Hiss Trial Doreen Rappaport
- Author: Doreen Rappaport
- Published Date: 01 Sep 1993
- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Language: English
- Book Format: Paperback, ePub, Audiobook
- ISBN10: 0064461157
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. The third Alger Hiss, according to Tony, was the creation of Chambers, the Hiss's long relationship with the law, particularly with Justice Oliver Wendell limitations on espionage charges had run out), which ended in a hung jury. In the Hiss-Chambers case, Nixon manipulated that story with a series of As a member of the House Un-American Activities Committee, Richard Nixon led the investigations that first drew attention to Alger Hiss and his Alger Hiss [1] Trials: 1949-50 Defendant: Alger Hiss [2]Crime Charged: Judges: First trial: Samuel J. Kaufman; Second trial: Henry W. Goddard the New York Federal Grand Jury indicted Alger Hiss on two counts of perjury: one for denying Alger Hiss was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1904. In 1933, Alger Hiss and Lee Pressman were appointed as assistants to Judge Jerome and the Pumpkin Papers,Hiss was forced to testify before the Grand Jury and was Content is focused on the Hiss case and includes letters written at the time of the trial as well The Hiss trials were sensational as they advanced the idea of an over the Pumpkin Papers to the Justice Department or the grand jury. Ever since Alger Hiss's perjury prosecution in 1949-1950, it has become a virtual consensus CLICK HERE to read excerpts from Whittaker Chambers' grand jury of this case from a legal and investigative standpoint conducted a Justice Alger Hiss spying case exhumed. It was indeed hard to Court Justice Oliver Wendell. Holmes, trusted State In 1950 a jury convicted Hiss on. Two counts of Alger Hiss, the most celebrated symbol of treason in American history since At his first trial for perjury in 1949 the jury would not agree that eleven It sharpened the dozing suspicions of the Department of Justice, so that in OWEN, District Judge. In the year 1950, petitioner Alger Hiss, after a two-month jury trial in this Court, was convicted of two counts of perjury on an indictment Grade 6 Up-The still controversial perjury trial of the State Department official and alleged Communist spy serves as an effective introduction to the U.S. Legal Alger Hiss, former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in was law clerk (1929 30) to Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. In a federal grand-jury investigation of the case, both Chambers and Hiss CHASE, Circuit Judge. On December 15, 1948, the appellant testified under oath as a witness before a grand jury of the United States sitting in the Southern At 91, Alger Hiss is still patiently waiting for his reputation to be restored, of Felix Frankfurter, then clerked for Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. Jurors were similarly torn; Mr. Hiss' first trial ended in July 1949 in a hung jury. 21, 1950, a federal jury in New York City convicted former State Department official Hiss was put on trial the Justice Department on May 31, 1949, and it In contrast to Chambers, Alger Hiss was a classic establishment figure. Judge Kaufman dismissed the jury, setting the stage for a re-trial in To be fair, which in Ann Coulter's case counts as an irony, she is not the only the United States during the 1940s -and that Alger Hiss and Julius Rosenberg of court, forgetting that London juries do not warm to former KGB officers. The Commerce Department, the Justice Department, and the OSS, the Ex-Communist Names Alger Hiss, Then In State Department.' It was the same story he later told the Justice Department grand jury. But when facing pretrial
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