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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Board of Overseers. Though the name of Col. Laurence E. Bunker '26 a former aide of Gen. MacArthur) did appear on the official ballot, and though half-page ads supporting him were inserted in Cleveland and Philadelphia newspapers, the Veritas candidate failed to gain election. In consequence, the group was reduced to its alumni mailings and sporadic contact with Harvard officials...
Oppenheimer came and spoke, of course, and left. But the Veritas group soon made it clear that their protest extended beyond Oppenheimer's appointment to "communist infiltration at Harvard," and the College's "trend to the left." In '57 and '58, two further issues were raised: the professional integrity of historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. '38, and the appointment of Mark Zborowski as a Research Assistant in Social Anthropology...
...Veritas group first questioned Schlesinger's professional integrity late in 1957, when Robert H. Montgomery '30 initiated a long and detailed correspondence with Dean Bundy. Attempting to prove "deliberate falsehood" and "suppression of the truth" in Schlesinger's treatment of the Sacco-Vanzetti murder case, Montgomery pointed out at least three factual errors, and the omission of the "single most damning piece of evidence"--the .32 calibre pistol carried by Saco and containing the rare and absolete type of cartridge that killed the guard...
...this time, members of the Veritas Committee had made themselves unpopular in both University and Massachusetts Halls. Though often well documented, their letters assumed a belligerent tone; when their efforts to elicit certain information were frustrated, the Veritas group resorted to polemic. Realizing their position and wanting to continue the fight, Kenneth Robertson and others decided that a completely new organization with fresh personnel might make more progress...
...June 1958, therefore, the official headquarters of Veritas action moved from Boston to New York, where the Foundation was formed with three new officers as Trustees. Set up as an "educational group," the Foundation claims tax-exempt status, "in the opinion of counsel"--an opinion which has yet to be tested. As any member of either group will admit, the now inactive Committee and the new Foundation are one in spirit, and cooperate closely...