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Chronology
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Famous Trials
The Alger
Hiss Trials
1949-50
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Video
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Chambers:
"Letter to My Children"
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Nixon:
Answer for Tricia
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Alger Hiss (circled)
listens
as Whittaker Chambers testifies before a House Un-American Activities
Committee
meeting on August 25, 1948. |
Transcript
Excerpts:
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| Pumpkin
Papers |
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Appellate
Decision in Hiss Case
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Incriminating
VENONA
Cable
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The
Alger Hiss Trials: An Account
by
Douglas
Linder (c)
2003
| No criminal
case had a more
far-reaching effects on modern American politics than the Alger
Hiss-Whittaker
Chambers spy case. The case catapulted an obscure California
congressman
named Richard Nixon to national fame, set the stage for Senator Joseph
McCarthy's notorious Communist-hunting, and marked the beginning of a
conservative
intellectual and political movement that would one day put Ronald
Reagan
in the White House. [CONTINUED] |
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| Nixon
Tapes Relating to Hiss Case |
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