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The Hiss-Chambers case gripped the nation in 1948 and still provokes controversy. Take a deep factual dive into the story of two brilliant, fascinating men, sensational Congressional hearings, spy documents hidden in a dumbwaiter shaft and a pumpkin, the trial of the century, and the launch of Richard Nixon's career.
Uppdateringsfrekvens:
weekly
Genomsnittlig ljudlängd:
16 minutes
Engelsk
USA
38 avsnitt
sedan 4 januari 2023
serial
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Meet Alger Hiss: Johns Hopkins, Harvard Law, Supreme Court clerk, left Wall Street to join a New Deal farming agency, counsel to a Senate Committee at age 30, aide to president Roosevelt at Yalta, Secretary General of the UN's founding conference, President of the Carnegie Endowment for Internati…
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Picture: Library of Congress Meet Whittaker Chambers: brilliant, melodramatic, painfully sincere, perpetually discontented and idealistic, and physically hard to forget; writer of controversial poems, plays, short stories, and communist journalism; and, as spymaster for Soviet Military Intelligence…
Whittaker Chambers tries to have a peaceful life, working a farm and becoming a high-paid and powerful editor at Time Magazine. But his past in the Soviet underground won't go away. Stalin's pact with Hitler impels him to inform the government about the underground. Worse, from time to time govern…
Photo: Craig Whitehead on Unsplash The backdrop of this case is American Communism — infatuation with it and disillusionment with it. Communism predicted a violent upheaval that would produce a better life. In actual practice, it produced only drab, poverty-stricken dictatorships that killed and …
Above, Elizabeth Bentley, who gave evidence at the first HUAC hearing. Pic: Library of Congress
In 1948, Whittaker Chambers is Time Magazine's Senior Editor. He is forced against his will to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee about his past in the Communist underground. He nam…
Richard M. Nixon, Library of Congress Alger Hiss calmly and patiently denies Whittaker Chambers' two charges: that the two of them were in the Communist underground in 1934-37 and that they became close friends. The Commie-hunters on the House Un-American Activities Committee are swept away by his…
Members of the House Un-American Activities Committee visit the home of Chairman John Parnell Thomas; (l-r) Rep. Richard B. Vail, Rep. Thomas, Rep. John McDowell, Robert Stripling, chief counsel, and Rep. Richard M. Nixon] Picture: Library of Congress Were Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss good fri…
Campaigning for the US Senate, 1950. Pic - Library of Congress
In this 8th podcast, we explore the thinking of Richard Nixon. Put yourself in his position. You're 35, elected to the House in a Republican wave year from a district that is usually safely Democratic. Your plum Committee assignment …
Alger Hiss, like Chambers, gives secret testimony to Nixon's HUAC Subcommittee. He is outraged that they are thinking of trusting Chambers, whom Hiss labels a Communist and a traitor (Hiss pre-channeling Senator McCarthy). When confronted with Chambers' detailed knowledge of his domestic life 10-…
In Podcast 10, Nixon's HUAC Subcommittee reacts skeptically to Hiss's new George Crosley story. Hiss, like Captain Renault in Casablanca, is shocked, shocked that the Representatives would even think of taking the word of the Communist and traitor Chambers over that of a distinguished personage s…
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