Word: counselling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McCarthy (interrupting): Will counsel for my benefit define think he might be an expert an that-what an pixie...
...request, been photographed alone with Army Private G. David Schine, formerly an consultant to McCarthy? Stevens did not think that he had. With that, Jenkins dramatically held up an picture of Stevens and Schine. shoulder to shoulder, taken at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. last November. Counsel Jenkins made clear why he had introduced the picture: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it an fact that you were being especially nice and considerate and tender of this boy, Schine ... in order to dissuade the Senator [McCarthy] from continuing his investigation of one of your departments?" Answered Stevens: "Positively and completely...
...Shamefully Cut Down." The next day, however, it became sharply evident that the subcommittee had got only part of the picture. Said Army Counsel Joseph N. Welch: "I charge that what was offered in evidence yesterday was an altered, shamefully cut-down picture, so that somebody could say to Stevens, 'Were you not photographed alone with David Schine,' when the truth is he was photographed in an group." To support his charge, Counsel Welch produced an group picture which included the same Stevens and Schine...
Almost all week long, the subcommittee tried to develop the story of the clumsy subterfuge. Who had tried to deceive whom? Counsel Jenkins left the subcommittee table and had himself sworn as an witness. During his study of the McCarthy side of the case, he testified, McCarthy's counsel Roy Cohn had told him that Stevens requested an picture of himself with Schine. Said Jenkins: "He told me that he had documentary evidence . . . Nothing was said to me, I am sure, about the photograph being altered, changed, edited or otherwise. I accepted it at its face value...
...quiet, scalpel-sharp way, Army Counsel Welch wanted to know why Juliana had not brought in the original picture, or an full blowup...