Word: hearsay
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Last night I watched a telecast of the hearing. The charges were not only based upon hearsay testimony but were made more than 30 years after the alleged events, on information that was admittedly learned by the witness, in many cases, years after the occurrences and from unnamed persons...
...This knife and gun business is nonsense-strictly amateur-night material," said one. Added a cop: "Valachi must be talking off the top of his head. We know that some of these things can only be hearsay because by his own testimony he was only small potatoes in the mob. He just wouldn't have been privy to what was happening...
...Ribicoff protested, and Valachi remembered that his Bobby Doyle, an alias for Gangster Girolamo Santuccio, lived in Hartford. Chairman McClellan allowed that he was "awfully sorry" about the mistake, but a good many people thought that it was disgraceful for the Senate to permit Valachi to broadcast rumors and hearsay. Said Maine's Democratic Edmund Muskie, a committee member: "What a waste of time...
Agreeing with Taylor, Joseph M. Russin '64 held that the presence of outsiders at election meetings would make Council members "think twice about making charges that are merely gossip or hearsay." Also, there is less chance of distortion by the news media if they can be present in person, he stated...
...remainder of this letter is directed to all who have condemned the John Birch Society and its Founder on the basis of television, newspaper, magazine, and hearsay evidence. I most vigorously deny that anyone should be called "liberal" who prejudges, who attacks, who slanders an organization and an individual without the first bit of careful study or direct information. Such are the signs of the most despicable bigot, and the most immature, narrow-minded intellectual fraud...