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Article: Freedom's plow.(Perspective)(Langston Hughes testimony at McCarthy hearings)(Interview)
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- Harper's Magazine
- Article date:
- December 1, 2003
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From recently released testimony by the poet Langston Hughes on March 24, 1953, before the Senate Committee on Government Operations' Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The subcommittee, chaired by Senator Joseph McCarthy, interrogated 395 people between 1953 and 1954 in closed-door hearings designed to determine whom among them to try in public session. Roy Cohn served as chief counsel; Senator Everett Dirksen was a subcommittee member.
ROY COHN: Do you remember writing this: "Good-morning, Revolution: You're the very best friend I ever had. We gonna pal around together from now on"?
LANGSTON HUGHES: Yes, sir, I wrote that.
COHN: Did ...