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...long-awaited event was an anticlimax. By the time Joe McCarthy raised a broad right hand and took the witness' oath at midweek, the suspicions, facts, hunches, charges and countercharges had been so well chewed over in seven weeks of hearings that not a morsel of fresh meat remained. On Committee Counsel Ray Jenkins' invitation to draw upon his "knowledge and experience," McCarthy first gave a lengthy lecture on Communist Party organization and tactics, amply illustrated for TV viewers by a large map (which Joe acknowledged was four years out of date...
...principle charges filed against Faxon were that he was a person undesirable as a school teacher; that he had violated the teachers' oath he took on March 31, 1953; and that he had engaged in conduct unbecoming a school teacher by failing, without justification, to cooperate as required by law with a duly constituted sub-committee of Congress...
Faxon told the School Committee that he has not belonged to the Communist Party since 1951, when membership became illegal in the Commonwealth. He asserted that he had never violated the Constitutions of the United States or Massachusetts, which he swore to uphold when he took the teachers' oath...
...constitutionality, the recent Supreme Court decision in the Oklahoma Loyalty Oath case declares unconstitutional any action making membership in a lawful organization in and of itself grounds for disqualification for state employ...
Lorwin said he may have said some such thing jokingly; he may have flashed his Socialist card, which was red, whereas the Communist card then was a black, 16-page booklet. Under oath he swore that he had never been a Communist. The board cleared him of loyalty charges, but in February 1951 suspended him as a security risk. Later, McCarthy publicly took credit for Lorwin's suspension...