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...year age today, Harvard Corporation issued a statement explaining its decision to retain, in spite of their exercise of the privilege under the Fifth Amendment, Professor Wendell H. Furry, Associate Professor Helen Deane Markham, and Leon J. Kamin (a Teaching Fellow). In their first appearances before Congressional Committees investigating Communist activities these three teachers had refused, on the ground that their answers would tend to incriminate them, to reply to questions regarding membership in the Communist Party...
...ever had been, a member, subsequently, on April 16, 1953, had amended his testimony to state that he had not been a member of the Communist Party during the preceding two years. Dr. Markham had remained constant in her refusal to testify as the past or present membership. Mr. Kamin had stated that he was not a member of the Communist Party but had refused to say whether he had been a member on the day preceding his testimony...
...pursuit of truth." Nevertheless it ruled that these three teachers should be retained. It found that Dr. Furry was "not now under the domination of the Communist Party," that Dr. Markham "is not, and never has been, a member of the Communist Party," and as to Mr. Kamin, that "About July, 1950, he ceased writing for the Daily Worker and dropped out of the Party without formal resignation...
...Furry and Mr. Kamin have subsequently admitted their past Communist Party membership to a Congressional Subcommittee. The good, however, in this commendable action, was nullified by their continued refusal to name their Communist associates. Whether or not they may be able to establish that such action is permissible under the First Amendment or otherwise, it is highly inconsistent with their duty, when called upon, "to aid in the enforcement of the law." Such action should not be allowed to stand of record as the action of faculty members in good standing and entrusted with the guidance and example of youths...
...originally announcing his intention to ask for grand jury action, Thompson indicated that other teachers in Massachusetts educational institutions might be charged with violating the 1949 Teachers' Oath. It is believed that the District. Attorney has also been investigating the case of Leon J. Kamin '49, research fellow in Social Relations and another frequent witness before legislative committees...