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Dailies and weeklies from Bangor to San Dicgo ran widely differing accounts of the Furry and Kamin hearings conducted by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R. Wis.) in Boston last month...
About one-third of the newspapers in the nation headlined the news that Furry and Kamin were on the Harvard faculty. A virtually equal number stressed the fact that Furry was a radar expert while a member of the Communist party. Many headlines mentioned McCarthy either with or without naming the witnesses. All mentioned either Furry's and Kamin's admission of communist activities, or their refusal to give names of Communists they knew, or both. Some newspapers, incidentally, took the opportunity to slur M.I.T. rather than the University because Furry worked on the radar project at that institution rather...
Pictures taken at the hearing were for the most part handled unsensationally. This was not, however, always the rule. The Peru, Ind. "Tribune" printed a picture of Kamin gesticulating while testifying and captioned it "Harvard Man Confesses." Roughly 20 small and medium-sized midwestern and western papers printed underneath a sydicated photo of Furry laughing, "Admits...
...largest group of newspapers all over the country took their stories of the hearing from the Associated Press releases of January 15 and 16. The former release dealt solely with McCarthy's investigation of Furry and Kamin; the latter release covered the testimonies of the ten witnesses from the General Electric Lynn and Everett plants, with sizeable references to the Cambridge savants by way of background. Approximately 30 percent of the newspapers which used the Associated Press stories used only the second release, completely omitting the first...
...portions and the words of the witnesses, and left most of McCarthy's speeches. This last generalization does not hold true for the South, and much of Oregon and surrounding regions. Here even large newspapers often avoided McCarthy's words and sometimes devoted their space to what Furry and Kamin had to say, as did the Baltimore Evening Sun, for example...