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Clinton E. Jencks, Southwestern official of the Red-led Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers, would probably be surprised if anyone seriously accused him of being a nonCommunist. But in 1950 Jencks signed a non-Communist affidavit under the Taft-Hartley law-and was duly indicted in El Paso, convicted of perjury...
Key witnesses at the Jencks perjury trial were paid FBI Informers J. W. Ford and Harvey Matusow, who testified that they had known Jencks as a party member. Both admitted that they had reported on Jencks's activities at the time in statements to the FBI. At the trial...
Wheat & Chaff. But raw FBI reports, in the words of Director J. Edgar Hoover, may "allege crimes of a most despicable type, and the truth or falsity of these charges may not emerge until several reports are studied, further investigation made and the wheat separated from the chaff." The usual...
In its appeal to the Supreme Court, the Jencks defense asked a new trial in which, specifically, Judge Thomason would be required to act as screener. It was this specific appeal that the Government argued against. In the legal point and counterpoint, the idea never came up of turning the...
Concurrence & Dissent. Justices Burton and Harlan concurred in ordering a new trial for Jencks, but only on the ground that Trial Judge Thomason had erred in his definition of Communist Party membership to the jury. But, wrote Burton, the old judge-as-screener rule "respects the interests of justice by...