nathaniel while, a few others, elizabeth bentley, wasn't just chambers.ce people think, it is conclusive that alger hiss was what chambers said. wasn't just one or two men. that is all. >> yes? >> the history department here, i wanted to say something -- i wanted to make a quick observation about "witness" and pose a question.bç the observation is for those of you who have read it, "witness" is a fascinating book and people tend to think what is fascinating is its indictment of communism but it is also a fascinating account of conversion to communism. half of the book is about very early experiences and experiences in the 1930s why he became a communist and that is not always as obvious about the book but very important as a historical document, a primary source. i happen to be writing about j. edgar hoover and my question is for m. stanton evans. he is a figure who has gone down in history as having not been particularly great reputation in a public consciousness in terms of some of the roles he played in the 40s and 50s in terms of the battle against

walk because the prosecutors in his said there's only one witness against them come and that's elizabeth bentleywho is another common as witness and, therefore, we cannot convict these people. they let them all walk. they could have had hiss been. the other witnesses they could've had was chambers. they refused to call and. it was only when he got called after meetings in the summer of 48 when the let those people go that broke the case and led to the conviction of alger hiss, and we have the minutes of those grand jury sessions and fbi records pertaining to those. that changed the course of history. whittaker chambers not only lived history and wrote history, but he changed history. and we, to this day, i do think fully appreciate how important he was in this pivotal episode, where he broke through the cover up to bring about the indictments and later conviction of alger hiss, and the course of history after that was changed america. my time is up. i thank you for yours. [applause] >> thank you, mr. evans. and two, panelists. we have about 15 minutes for questions, but before i ask you to come

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