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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...
...portion of the tape played to Judge Aldrich yesterday seemed directly to contradict Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's testimony that Kamin was present in the hearing room when he discussed the purposes for which Kamin had been called. The tape included a phrase not recorded in the transcript: After McCarthy had explained the hearing's purpose and said Kamin would be the first witness, a voice said, "I believe Mr. Kamin is in the side room...
...Kamin May Testify...
...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...