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This House Un-American Activities Committee film documents events that took place at a field hearing in San Francisco’s City Hall from May 12-14, 1960. The field hearing was disrupted by pro…

Communist Party Member Whittaker Chambers and Former State Department Official Alger Hiss appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee in this Universal Newsreel footage. This …

A brief clip of Rep. Mundt, who controlled much of the hearings due to the sickness of the committee chair, questioned Alger Hiss. this was part of a Washington Journal segment.

In a clip from a historical archive, Whittaker Chambers identified Alger Hiss as a communist whom he knew in the middle 1930s.

Alger Hiss responded to Whittaker Chambers testimony from August 3. This is the first televised Committee hearing.