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McCarthyism
May. 13th, 2003 11:02 amOn the classics list someone pointed out this link to a 2.3 MB text file including testimony from various literary and academic figures in 1953 McCarthy hearings. The main draw for classicists was Naphtali Lewis, a papyrologist, but the file also contains the testimony of, e.g., Dashiell Hammett and Langston Hughes; that file and four more volumes of testimony can be found on the Government Print Office website.
As you have to load the whole file and then use a search function to find specific witnesses, I came upon the testimony of Helen Goldfrank, who under a pen-name had written a children's book called "Apple Pie for Lewis." Her general attitude can only be described as non-cooperative, and it makes for long, if entertaining, reading.
For those of you who don't want to load that whole page you can read Goldfrank's testimony right here in my livejournal. It's long, though; a printout is about 10 pages.
For example:
Mr. Cohn. What Is your husband's first name?
Mrs. Goldfrank. I must decline to answer that question on
the ground that it might tend to incriminate me under the Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution, and also on the basis of
privileged communication between husband and wife.
Mr. Cohn. You think his first name is a privileged
communication?
Mrs. Goldfrank. Yes. I wouldn't know his name unless I were
married to him.
11:33: I've highlighted in bold some sections, so you can get the "good parts" version fairly easily.
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As you have to load the whole file and then use a search function to find specific witnesses, I came upon the testimony of Helen Goldfrank, who under a pen-name had written a children's book called "Apple Pie for Lewis." Her general attitude can only be described as non-cooperative, and it makes for long, if entertaining, reading.
For those of you who don't want to load that whole page you can read Goldfrank's testimony right here in my livejournal. It's long, though; a printout is about 10 pages.
For example:
Mr. Cohn. What Is your husband's first name?
Mrs. Goldfrank. I must decline to answer that question on
the ground that it might tend to incriminate me under the Fifth
Amendment to the Constitution, and also on the basis of
privileged communication between husband and wife.
Mr. Cohn. You think his first name is a privileged
communication?
Mrs. Goldfrank. Yes. I wouldn't know his name unless I were
married to him.
11:33: I've highlighted in bold some sections, so you can get the "good parts" version fairly easily.
( Read more... )
