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8 Takeaways From Harvard’s Task Force Reports

The Principals

A Brief Summary

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The Interrogators -- Members of Congress

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (R-Wis.), Chairman, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Senate Committee on Government Operations.

Senator William E. Jenner (R-Ind.), Chairman, Subcommittee to Investigate the Administration of the Internal Security Act and Other Internal Security Laws of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. Representative Harold H. Velde (R-Ill.), Chairman, House Committee on Un-American Activities.

The Interrogated -- Members of the Harvard Faculty

Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics (now a full professor). Leon J. Kamin, teaching fellow in Social Relations.

Mrs. Helen Deane Markham, assistant professor of Anatomy.

The Honored -- Men cited by the Faculty for defending academic freedom

Paul H. Buck, Provost and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences; Chairman, Administrative Committee to Assume the President's Duties (from January to July, 1953).

Charles A. Coolidge '17, Fellow of Harvard College; member, the Administrative Committee.

Erwin Griswold, Dean of the Law School; member, Special Faculty Advisory Committee to the Corporation.

Charles A. Wyzanski '27, Federal District Judge; President of the Board of Overseers.

Nathan M. Pusey '28, President, Harvard University.

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