Sam Tannenhaus
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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I didn't know that either.
There's a whole Quaker thing going on here.
There are always inside stories in those things.
If we ever get to Buckley and Gore Vidal, I'll tell you the inside story there.
So here we are.
And so they start gathering the evidence.
So at one point, there's a really great moment in the Hiss case.
Chambers had said, well...
Alger and I were both, he used this great term nobody uses anymore, he said, we were amateur ornithologists.
He said, bird observers.
He sounds like Buckley.
He didn't even say bird watcher.
He said, well, we were bird observers.
We do it here on the canal.
And they say, oh, really?
Yeah, Chambers said, Alger once got really excited when we saw a rare warbler, a prothonotary warbler.
And there's one guy on the HUAC committee, a guy named John McDowell from Pennsylvania, I think, who is a bird watcher.
They bring Hiss in.
And he says, Mr. Hiss, we know, right, we get it.
You know, you didn't know Chambers.