Word: kamin
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...whether or not there is any Communist Party activity at Harvard or anywhere else,” he told Sen. Harold H. Velde’s committee.Citing the Fifth Amendment, Furry refused to speak to the Velde committee about communism. Over the next three years, Furry and Leon J. Kamin ’48 would be called to testify about their ties with the Communist Party and to name others in the party. Though they initially refused, they eventually revealed their own Communist activities.“I guess we’d been hearing the drums out of Washington...
Still, the accused Kamin was not reappointed at the end of the academic year and went on to face a subpoena from McCarthy’s committee in early...
...Kamin met with then-Dean of the Faculty McGeorge Bundy shortly before the hearing...
...describes the meeting in a letter published in the New York Review of Books in February 2005. “He urged me to do my civic duty, and to name names,” Kamin writes, adding that he also learned that Bundy was in regular contact with the Boston office of the FBI and that he had had advance knowledge of Kamin’s subpoena by McCarthy’s committee...
...little surprised to learn that he was in such close contact with the FBI. I wasn’t surprised that he would take the basic point of view that he did,” Kamin says in an interview...