Alger Hiss

The great Red Scare followed World War I after the concern about the Bolshevic revolution in 1917. This event frightened many Americans who feared that radicals in the United States might try to follow the Bolshevic example. Rumors began circulating and these ideas became an exaggerated scare in 1919 . Events that kept people in the United States thinking and talking about the communist threat included a total of 30 bombs found by postal workers addressed to many prominent individuals, as well as another bomb that actually exploded killing 38 people and injuring many others on Wall Street in 1920. This was an important time, in that it showed what happens when people lose faith in their fellow neighbors. When faith in friends and neighbors is lost, fear takes over. The fear in people's minds turned into hate and became very dangerous. These feelings spread quickly through the whole social system of the United States.

The Espionage Act was passed during WWI to punish treasonable or disloyal activities. This Act remained in place and active after WWI. During this time and on through WWII, many innocent people were questioned, arrested, fined, and in some cases, killed. With the American people feeling that anyone around them coul

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Chambers was one of the people who felt so strongly about this.

This first trial ended with the jury deliberating for 14 hours and 10 minutes. On August 5th, 1948, Hiss gave a prepared statement that he did not know Chambers and had never been a member of the Communist party. Chambers went Columbia University and was forced to leave school after writing a play, which was deemed blasphemous. , 1986

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Barone, Michael. He went on such programs as "Meet the Press" and stated that Hiss was and possibly still is a Communist. He was fired from the New York public library after he was caught stealing books. Another part of the evidence was photographs of secret documents Chambers said that Hiss had taken and then given to him. He turned sharply away from the Communist ideas and practices and became a devout Christian fighting against the proliferation of the Co!

mmunist culture in America. The government refused to let this issue die and immediately started proceedings to get a new trial underway. Reed, and other well known diplomats and judges. His life would have been ruined and he would not have been able to get a job when he did get out of prison.

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