Word: kamin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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March 26, 1953: Kamin appears before Jenner Sub-committee. Denies he was then a Communist, but refuses all other testimony. Cites Fifth Amendment...
These are some of the important events in the cases of Leon J. Kamin and Wendell H. Furry...
January 15, 1954: Furry and Kamin both appear before McCarthy. They abandon use of the Fifth Amendment and freely testify about themselves and their own Communist activities, but decline all testimony about others...
August 1954: Senate, at height of battle over McCarthy censure, votes contempt citations against both Furry and Kamin...
October 10, 1955: Kamin's trial opens with futile attempt to select a jury. Applause for McCarthy, chief government witness, causes a mistrial. Kamin and government agree to waiver of jury trial...