Word: peress
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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March 16. The family illness having been confirmed by two physicians and the Red Cross, Peress was ordered to Camp Kilmer, N.J. His papers again followed him across the country. The Army, which had to conduct some 4,000 investigations in two years, was slowly turning its investigative wheels...
Late June-Early July. The investigation of Peress was finally completed, and a report sent to First Army Headquarters in New York. The report contained a recommendation that he be separated from the service...
August. When the Peress file finally reached the Army Personnel Board in the Pentagon, he was sent an "interrogatory," citing the evidence against him and giving him a chance to reply. He wrote "Federal constitutional privilege" across the papers and mailed them back...
...Along with 7,000 other doctors and dentists, Peress was promoted under an amendment to the doctors' draft law calling for a general readjustment of grades based on a restudy of civilian medical experience. The Army's promotion hand did not seem to know or care that the Army's investigation hand was reaching for Peress' shoulder...
November-December. The personnel board decided that Peress should be separated from the Army. How should this be done? One way was to court-martial him. But for what? He had done nothing but invoke his constitutional privilege as regulations provided. (Earlier in the year, the Army had court-martialed Lieut. Sheppard Carl Thierman, a Brooklyn physician, in an almost identical case, and he was acquitted.) The second course was to grant Peress a discharge other than honorable, but Peress could have held this up as long as a year and might have prevented it. The third way out: give...