Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Judge Balley Aldrich '28 tentatively admitteed into evidence yesterday a tape recording of the Jan. 1954 hearing at which Leon J. Kamin '48 refused to discuss former Communist associates. His decision followed a day-long battle by the defense...
Defense attorney Calvin P. Bartlett said yesterday that Kamin had arrived in Cambridge Tuesday night and that he intended to call him as a witness. He may take the stand today...
These charge Kamin with refusing to answer two questions...
...Kamin was acquitted of contempt in refusing to tell whether he knew "anyone at Harvard or connected with Harvard who was also a Communist." The two charges dismissed were judged to be too similar to other counts in the indictment...
Stating his views in a 14-page opinion, Aldrich declared the question's phrase, "anyone at Harvard" was too broad to fit what Senator Joseph R. McCarthy himself had defined as the subject matter of the inquiry for which Kamin was called as a witness. McCarthy had said he was studying Communist infiltration of classified defense projects...