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Famous Trials

 The Alger Hiss Trials

 1949-50
 

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 Chambers: "Letter
to My Children"
Nixon: Answer for Tricia

Alger Hiss (circled) listens as Whittaker Chambers testifies before a
 House Un-American Activities Committee meeting on August 25, 1948.
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HUAC Hearings
Grand Jury 
Trials
Pumpkin
Papers
Appellate Decision
in Hiss Case
Incriminating
VENONA Cable
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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