Jan 27, 2022
Psychiatrist Dr. Carl Binger
This Podcast presents the testimony of an eminent
psychiatrist, Dr. Carl Binger. He opined that Whittaker
Chambers suffered from a mental illness, called “Psychopathic
Personality,” which causes its sufferers to make false accusations
that they sincerely believe to be true. Dr. Carl...
Jan 20, 2022
Hede
Hassing, a key witness in the 2nd trial
The second trial: new Judge (an elderly Republican), a new
jury (seven women!), a new lawyer for Hiss (Boston’s distinguished,
quiet Claude Cross), a new strategy by each side, and a lot more
witnesses. The next three Podcasts bring you three witnesses
who did not testify...
Jan 13, 2022
Pic: Hiss Defense Attorney Lloyd Paul
Stryker
At last we hear the two great trial lawyers, Lloyd Paul
Stryker for The Hiss Defense and Thomas Murphy for The Prosecution,
sum up the evidence and loose their rhetorical flourishes.
Stryker, remember, was going for a hung jury, just trying to get
one or two jurors to hold...
Jan 6, 2022
Podcast #28 recounts the testimonies of three black
Washingtonians named Catlett. Claudia Catlett, the Hisses’
household servant, had only one memory of Chambers being in the
Hiss house. She’d likely have seen him more if he’d been
coming by regularly to pick up spy documents. Two of her
sons, teenagers when...