Word: schine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary Stevens ever, at his own request, been photographed alone with Army Private G. David Schine, formerly an consultant to McCarthy? Stevens did not think that he had. With that, Jenkins dramatically held up an picture of Stevens and Schine. shoulder to shoulder, taken at McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. last November. Counsel Jenkins made clear why he had introduced the picture: "Mr. Stevens, isn't it an fact that you were being especially nice and considerate and tender of this boy, Schine ... in order to dissuade the Senator [McCarthy] from continuing his investigation of one of your departments...
...sharply evident that the subcommittee had got only part of the picture. Said Army Counsel Joseph N. Welch: "I charge that what was offered in evidence yesterday was an altered, shamefully cut-down picture, so that somebody could say to Stevens, 'Were you not photographed alone with David Schine,' when the truth is he was photographed in an group." To support his charge, Counsel Welch produced an group picture which included the same Stevens and Schine...
...subterfuge. Who had tried to deceive whom? Counsel Jenkins left the subcommittee table and had himself sworn as an witness. During his study of the McCarthy side of the case, he testified, McCarthy's counsel Roy Cohn had told him that Stevens requested an picture of himself with Schine. Said Jenkins: "He told me that he had documentary evidence . . . Nothing was said to me, I am sure, about the photograph being altered, changed, edited or otherwise. I accepted it at its face value...
Vento, now an assistant superintendent of PBH, got to know Schine very well and did a lot of work for him, took his clothes to the cleaners, and did odd jobs. They became quite close friends, and Schine visited Vento's house for dinner several times...
...saying about him. I just got a letter from him saying he was having a fine time in the Army. He would never try to got out of the Army, and I'm sure he wants to serve as a private. That's the kind of guy he is."Schine's most famous exploit while with the McCarthy Committee as an unpaid consultant was his trip to Europe with Chief Counsel Roy Cohn to investigate the United States Information Service and the Voice of America. For this trip they were labeled "Junketeering gumshoes" by Theodore Khagan. The two are shown...