Week of June 1, 1954
A special board votes to bar
Dr. J. Robert
Oppenheimer,
the atomic scientist from further access
to the nation’s atomic secrets. The board concluded that
the physicist, who had scientific charge of the creation of
the first atomic bomb, is “a loyal citizen” by is
nevertheless a security. The board said Oppenheimer
was an active fellow traveler of the Communists at one
time and showed “poor” judgment in continuing some of
his past associations into the present.
Sen. Joseph McCarthy says, “A great service would be
performed for the country” if the White House would stop
its “bickering and fighting” with his committee.” He made the statement at the
McCarthy-Army hearings shortly after saying his is deeply disturbed about
“Communist” infiltration of the CIA.”
Sen. Joseph McCarthy and the Defense Department get into a deadlock on the
question of keeping secret the names of 133 suspected security risks who the
Senator says are working in U.S. defense plants.
McCarthy-Army controversy - Sen. Joseph McCarthy releases monitored phone
calls in which he is quoted as angrily telling Secretary of the Army Stevens last
February that “you will live to regret” orders forbidding Army generals to testify
before him (McCarthy).
Full freedom - The Indo-Chinese coastal state of Vietnam is proclaimed an
independent commonwealth within the French empire in a moved designed to
stiffen native resistance to Communist attack.
The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii erupts, with a display of 600-ft fountains of lava.
Entertainment news -
Engaged -
Fred MacMurray to June Haver
.
Television news
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Over-the-air subscription TV test -
New Yorkers who tune to WOR-TV channel 9 during the
day get a glimpse of - nothingness; just jumble as
channel 9 and Zenith conduct pay-TV experiments.
