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Article: The ongoing campaign of Alger Hiss: the sins of the father.
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- Modern Age
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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ON NOVEMBER 27, 1954, Alger Hiss was released from the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pensylvania, after serving forty-four months of a five-year-prison sentence for perjury. On that day, surrounded by friends, family, and the press, Hiss defiantly announced his campaign to "vindicate" himself, a campaign that continues to this very day, despite Hiss's death in 1996 at the age of 92. (1)
"What is vindication for him?" Whittaker Chambers wrote William F. Buckley, Jr., the very day after Hiss's release from prison.
It is the moment when one of the most respectable old ladies
(gentlemen) in Hartford (Conn.) says to another of the most
respectable ...