Nov 25, 2021
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Now comes the witness who, in my opinion, dooms Alger Hiss. He gives expert testimony supporting Chambers’ claim that the typed spy documents were passed to him by Alger Hiss after Mrs. Hiss typed them on the Hiss home typewriter. Lloyd Paul Stryker did not ask this...
Nov 18, 2021
Robert
Stripling & Richard Nixon
Everyone always asks about the topic of this Podcast #21:
“What was in the secret State Department documents?” These
are the 126 pages that Chambers introduced as the last documents
that Hiss gave him. State Department men authenticated them
as copies (or summaries or excerpts) of...
Nov 11, 2021
Lloyd Paul Stryker, Hiss's Defense Atty
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Whittaker Chambers, and then his wife Esther, testify in
court. Both their direct testimonies were rocky due to
Stryker’s objections and Judge Kaufman’s rulings. Their
cross-examinations by Stryker were brutal. Chambers sat there and
passively took blow...
Nov 4, 2021
Pic: Prosecutor Thomas
Murphy
In this Podcast, I deliver, in my best courtroom voice, short
versions of Prosecutor Murphy’s down-to-earth opening statement for
the government and Lloyd Paul Stryker’s incandescent overture for
the Hiss defense. See which one you think is more impressive
— Murphy’s calm,...