Vic's News 2016 Aug 25

…On this day in 1948 the House Un-American Activities Committee held the first-ever televised congressional hearing. This was "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss. Both were Russian spies. Liberals to this day deny Hiss was a communist spy but that fact has been verified via the Vernona papers and furthermore the FBI knew it at the time but did not want to let it be known that they had broken the Russian spy ring. Much has been made of the Joe McCarthy hearings over in the Senate but it was not part of the House doings. …