01-10-2008, 07:15 PM
This would be a great article to update and expand on. (Linda, are you game? ) It's amazing how tuned in Mae was, so far back. Watergate had not even happened!
A couple of years back more proof emerged to exonerate Hiss.
There was a wonderful film in 1979 called "The trials of Alger Hiss" that details his framing. Great footage of that entire debacle. This film really helped me understand Nixon- on a personal level. His jealousy of Hiss, JFK and any other Ivy league, goodlooking, successful man. This drove him as much as his ideology.
Dawn
A couple of years back more proof emerged to exonerate Hiss.
There was a wonderful film in 1979 called "The trials of Alger Hiss" that details his framing. Great footage of that entire debacle. This film really helped me understand Nixon- on a personal level. His jealousy of Hiss, JFK and any other Ivy league, goodlooking, successful man. This drove him as much as his ideology.
Dawn