29-06-2014, 10:00 PM
Thanks Dawn.
Couple of corrections: the film was released in 1980 not 1978. The look on that juror's face when he read the documents about the typewriter was worth the price of the movie. It is incredible that you cannot get this film anywhere today. What has happened to this country? You cannot get documentaries and you cannot get foreign films anymore. Some guy wrote a book a few years ago entitled, "Not Coming to a Theater Near You". That is what Netflix did to America.
Second, the typewriter was actually planted on the defense not the prosecution. It was clever how they did it. If i recall correctly, Donald Hiss actually found the typewriter after a very long search for it. The Hisses had given it to friends or servants of theirs. And it had been passed along to others. The FBI had 30 agents looking for it BEFORE Donald Hiss began. What probably happened is they switched the typewriters before Donald Hiss got it. BTW, the expert for the defense on the typewriter was Elizabeth McCarthy. She felt that the Pumpkin Papers may for may not have been typed on the machine in court. She was closer to the truth than the FBI was. BTW, she was the woman who testified for Garrison at the trial of Clay Shaw that Shaw had signed the ledger at the VIP Lounge as Clay Bertrand. Pretty good eh?
When Bobby Kennedy reviewed the Hiss case, he hit the roof when he discovered that the FBI never had the typewriter. This is one of the things that made him lose a lot of respect for both Hoover and the FBI.
Before he went to prison, Hiss said, "I am confident that in the future the full facts of how Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed." In retrospect, it wasn't Chambers. It was the combination of Nixon and the FBI. (BTW, that is a great quote you dug up about Nixon referring to himself as a dog.)
Again, Hiss may or may not have been at some communist meetings. He may have been a pinko. He may or may not even have have been some kind of spy. But for Simkin to make this simply a matter of fact--that he was a spy--and to somehow compare that late announcement with the JFK case, that is just a non sequitir.
Couple of corrections: the film was released in 1980 not 1978. The look on that juror's face when he read the documents about the typewriter was worth the price of the movie. It is incredible that you cannot get this film anywhere today. What has happened to this country? You cannot get documentaries and you cannot get foreign films anymore. Some guy wrote a book a few years ago entitled, "Not Coming to a Theater Near You". That is what Netflix did to America.
Second, the typewriter was actually planted on the defense not the prosecution. It was clever how they did it. If i recall correctly, Donald Hiss actually found the typewriter after a very long search for it. The Hisses had given it to friends or servants of theirs. And it had been passed along to others. The FBI had 30 agents looking for it BEFORE Donald Hiss began. What probably happened is they switched the typewriters before Donald Hiss got it. BTW, the expert for the defense on the typewriter was Elizabeth McCarthy. She felt that the Pumpkin Papers may for may not have been typed on the machine in court. She was closer to the truth than the FBI was. BTW, she was the woman who testified for Garrison at the trial of Clay Shaw that Shaw had signed the ledger at the VIP Lounge as Clay Bertrand. Pretty good eh?
When Bobby Kennedy reviewed the Hiss case, he hit the roof when he discovered that the FBI never had the typewriter. This is one of the things that made him lose a lot of respect for both Hoover and the FBI.
Before he went to prison, Hiss said, "I am confident that in the future the full facts of how Whittaker Chambers was able to carry out forgery by typewriter will be disclosed." In retrospect, it wasn't Chambers. It was the combination of Nixon and the FBI. (BTW, that is a great quote you dug up about Nixon referring to himself as a dog.)
Again, Hiss may or may not have been at some communist meetings. He may have been a pinko. He may or may not even have have been some kind of spy. But for Simkin to make this simply a matter of fact--that he was a spy--and to somehow compare that late announcement with the JFK case, that is just a non sequitir.