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...Studio. In addition, he earned the strident scorn of the Stalinist left and the enduring suspicion of simple-hearted followers of the party line because he was one of the most + prominent and least apologetic figures to name former Communist colleagues before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) when it was investigating the party's activities in show business. In the '60s he would absorb much of the blame for the failed first attempt to establish a repertory theater at New York City's Lincoln Center and amaze himself, among others, by becoming a best-selling novelist...
...days later, HUAC members, spurred on by first-term California Congressman Richard Nixon, called Eastman Kodak to check on the film's emulsion numbers. They got bad news: the film could not have been manufactured before 1945, which meant that Chambers must be lying. Furious, Nixon phoned Chambers to demand an explanation. But minutes later, Kodak called back to apologize for its mistake: the film could indeed have been made in 1938. "Poor Chambers," said a relieved Nixon. "Nobody ever believes him at first...
...docudrama in PBS'S American Playhouse series, clears away much of that baggage and concentrates instead on one of the most fascinating political mystery stories of the century. The drama, with script by British Playwright Hugh Whitemore, begins on Aug. 3, 1948, the day that Chambers electrified a HUAC hearing by naming Hiss as a Communist. Chambers by then had been out of the Communist Party for ten years, and was working as a senior editor for TIME. The climax is set in a courtroom almost 18 months later, when Hiss-who denied all charges and has continued...
...witnesses rehearsed their public testimony in prior, closed sessions with individual congressmen or committees. With few exceptions, the names they gave to Congress were already known to the committees and the FBI. The point of the McCarthy hearings, Navasky says, was not to gather information for legislative purposes, as HUAC's charter stated, but to force private citizens to degrade themselves in order to prove their loyalty. Those who betrayed their natural moral impulses were made heroes by Congress and the press. Those who reserved their principles and their silence were deprived of work and reputation...
...next day, Nixon was confronted with another crisis: the manufacturer of three rolls reported that they had been made in 1945, meaning that Chambers' evidence was forged. By Nixon's account, he reacted coolly, almost stoically. But Stripling and other HUAC investigators told Weinstein that Nixon actually became almost hysterical, exclaiming: "Oh my God. This is the end of my political career." In abusive language, he blamed the investigators. He threatened to tell reporters that "we were sold a bill of goods." Minutes later the film manufacturer phoned to say that there had been a mistake: the film...