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Whittaker Chambers Under subpoena in 1948, he testified in what became Alger Hiss's perjury (espionage) trials (1949–1950) and he became an outspoken anti-communist (all described in his 1952 memoir Witness). Afterwards, he worked briefly as a senior editor at National Review (1957–1959). President Ronald Reagan awarded him the Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1984.
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The Cold War Home Front: McCarthyism 16. The Army-McCarthy Hearings In the spring of 1954, McCarthy's committee began an investigation into the United States Army. Earlier, McCarthy had made headlines with stories of a dangerous spy ring among Army researchers, but ultimately nothing came of this investigation.
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The Road to the Nuremberg Trials The subsequent trials were held in the same location at the Palace of Justice in Nuremberg. These proceedings included the Doctors Trial (December 9, 1946-August 20, 1947), in which 23 defendants were accused of crimes against humanity, including medical experiments on prisoners of war.
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Redirecting to: www.famous-trials.com/luther in ( 4) seconds. Luther answering charges of heresy before the Diet of Worms in 1521 The Trial of Martin Luther: An Account (Luther's Hearings Before the Diet at Worms on Charges of Heresy) by Douglas O. Linder (2010) Historians have described it as the trial that led to the birth of the modern world.
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- Alger Hiss convicted of perjury. In the conclusion to one of the most spectacular trials in U.S. history, former State Department official Alger Hiss is convicted of perjury. He was convicted of having perjured himself in regards to testimony about his alleged involvement in a Soviet spy ring before and during World War II.
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Alger Hiss In 1949, the first trial resulted in a hung jury, but in 1950, Hiss was convicted. On January 21, 1950, he was sentenced to five years in prison, ending an important case that helped further confirm the increasing penetration of the U.S. government by the Soviets during the Cold War.
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Oliver North 1987 Testimony Warns About Osama Bin Ladin It was 1987. At a lecture the other day they were playing an old news video of Lt.Col. Oliver North testifying at the Iran-Contra hearings during the Reagan Administration. There was Ollie in front of God and country getting the third degree, but what he said was stunning! He was being drilled by a senator; Did you not recently spend close to $60,000 for a home security system?.
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Sedition Act of 1918 It was repealed on December 13, 1920. Though the legislation enacted in 1918 is commonly called the Sedition Act, it was actually a set of amendments to the Espionage Act. Therefore many studies of the Espionage Act and the Sedition Act find it difficult to report on the two acts separately.n June 1918, the Socialist Party figure Eugene V. Debs of Indiana was arrested for violating the Sedition Act by undermining the government's conscription efforts. He was sentenced to ten years in prison.
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Susan B. Anthony In 1873, Susan B. Anthony was arrested at her house in Rochester, New York. Here are three accounts of Susan B. Anthony’s trial for illegally voting in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Northern District of New York on June 19th, 1873. Account No.1
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Nuremberg Trials Twelve trials, involving over a hundred defendants and several different courts, took place in Nuremberg from 1945 to 1949. By far the most attention--not surprisingly, given the figures involved--has focused on the first Nuremberg trial of twenty-one major war criminals.
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Nuremberg Trials Nuremberg Trials. The Nuremberg Trials is the general name for two sets of trials of Nazis involved in crimes committed during the Holocaust of World War II. The first, and most famous, began on November 20, 1945.
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The Nuremberg Trials Nuremberg, Germany, was chosen as a site for trials that took place in 1945 and 1946. Judges from the Allied powers—Great Britain, France, the Soviet Union, and the United States—presided over the hearings of twenty-two major Nazi criminals. Twelve prominent Nazis were sentenced to death.
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Richard A. Ballinger Early Life and Seattle Career [edit]. Ballinger was born in Boonesboro, Iowa, the son of Richard Henry Ballinger and Mary Elizabeth Norton. In 1884 he graduated from Williams College, where he was a member of the Zeta Psi fraternity.Ballinger passed the bar exam in 1886 and began practicing law in Seattle.allinger returned to the private practice of law in Seattle, Washington, where he died on June 6, 1922, and was buried at the Lake View Cemetery. He was survived by his wife Julia Albertson Ballinger (1864-1961), who bore their sons Edwin B. Ballinger (1899-) and Richard Talcott Ballinger (1898-1971).
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McCarthyism Such trials typically relied on information from informers and accomplices, such as Whittaker Chambers (whose testimony led to the downfall of Hiss) and the three co-conspirators whose confessions and testimony were vital to the Rosenberg trial, Klaus Fuchs, Harry Gold and David Greenglass.
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- The state's initial response, harsh as it was, was not yet as draconian as it was to become. Its attempt to prosecute more than 150 anti-apartheid leaders for treason, in a trial that began in 1956, ended in acquittals in 1961. But by that time, mass organised opposition had been banned.
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Why was Socrates sentenced to death? According to a Time (magazine) feature, Top 10 Trials that Shook the World: [1] In 399 B.C.E., Socrates — the father of Greek philosophy — was put on trial for impiety and corrupting the youth of Athens. At the time, Socrates was a controversial figure in the city and not particularly liked.
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Impeachment investigations of United States federal judges The Senate considered the articles of impeachment on April 23, 1926, and the impeachment trial began with Judge English's answer to the articles on May 3, 1926. House managers then requested time to prepare a response to Judge English. On March 5, 1926, the Senate set November 10 as the date for the trial to resume.
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International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg THE INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL. The trials of leading German officials before the International Military Tribunal (IMT), the best known of the postwar war crimes trials, formally opened in Nuremberg, Germany, on November 20, 1945, just six and a half months after Germany surrendered.
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Alger Hiss In 1936, Alger Hiss and his younger brother Donald Hiss began working under Cordell Hull in the State Department. Alger was an assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Francis B. Sayre (son-in-law of Woodrow Wilson) and then special assistant to the director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs.
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Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson begins On March 13, according to the rules set out in Section 3 of Article I of the U.S. Constitution, the impeachment trial of President Johnson began in the Senate. U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase presided over the proceedings, which were described as theatrical.
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U.S. Congress passes Sedition Act After delivering an anti-war speech in June 1918 in Canton, Ohio, Debs was arrested, tried and sentenced to 10 years in prison under the Sedition Act.
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MIRANDA v. ARIZONA Miranda v. Arizona. On March 13, 1963, petitioner, Ernesto Miranda, was arrested at his home and taken in custody to a Phoenix police station. He was there identified by the complaining witness. The police then took him to Interrogation Room No. 2 of the detective bureau. There he was questioned by two police officers.
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Alger Hiss The case heightened public concern about Soviet espionage penetration of the U.S. government in the 1930s and 1940s. As a well-educated and highly connected government official from an old American family, Alger Hiss did not fit the profile of a typical spy.
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McCarthyism After the allegations that both Assistant Treasury Secretary Harry Dexter White and FDR advisor Alger Hiss were Soviet agents, loyalty tests were required for government and other employment and lists of subversive organizations were maintained.
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- Muhammad Ali leaves the Federal Court Building after being convicted of refusing to be inducted into the military, June 20, 1967. June 20, 2011 06:00 AM. by Denis Cummings. On June 20, 1967, heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali was sentenced to five years in prison for refusing to serve in the military. In 1964, at the age of 22, Cassius Clay defeated Sonny Liston to win the heavyweight championship.
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The Alger Hiss Spy Case Alger Hiss died on November 15, 1996, at the age of 92. Was he one of the century’s greatest liars or one of its longest-suffering victims? ‘I know he was innocent,’ says John Lowenthall, a friend and legal representative who made a documentary, The Trials of Alger Hiss, in 1978. ‘For most people it’s not a matter of fact, it’s a matter of ideology and emotion.