Hiss-Chambers Hearing
Alger Hiss responded to Whittaker Chambers testimony from August 3.
Mr. Chambers and Mr. Hiss appeared with each other before the committee. This was the first House committee hearing to be televised.
Alger Hiss responded to Whittaker Chambers testimony from August 3.
Mr. Chambers identified Alger Hiss as a communist whom he knew in the middle 1930s.
Rep. Mundt, who controlled much of the hearings due to the sickness of the committee chair, questioned Mr. Hiss.
Mr. Hiss talked about his father, Alger Hiss, and the impact of the Chambers-Hiss perjury trial. Historical photographs were shown.…