Word: weisberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters were forgeries, that Mayne had admitted writing them himself. How did they come into the hands of Congressman Hook? Few days later up popped three answerers, ready & willing to explain: wealthy Gardner Jackson, well known in Washington as an incorrigible crusader for many a liberal cause, Harold Weisberg, his collaborator on a forthcoming book about the Dies Committee, and a newspaperman named John Henshaw. Henshaw had told Weisberg about the Mayne letters, Weisberg had told Jackson. Jackson, indignantly believing they were the goods, put up the $105 Mayne wanted for them. Thereupon Jackson had invited a number of Congressmen...