History of the United States II / Unit 13 USH2 1824 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Alger Hiss
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The idea
On August third, nineteen forty-eight, Whittaker Chambers testified before HUAC that he and the former State Department official Alger Hiss had worked together in a Communist underground, the Yawp records.
In practice
A young congressman, Richard Nixon, making his name by publicly accusing Hiss.
Where people slip
The Yawp calls Hiss the highest-ranking official linked to Soviet espionage.
Your place on the trail
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