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September 8, 1954

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WINCHELL DENIES HE KNOWS SOURCE OF M'CARTHY DATA; Testifies He Is 'Pretty Sure' Senator or Staff Did Not Give Him F. B. I. Copy

By Anthony Leviero

Watkins com hearing; W Winchell testifies he recd copy of controversial 2 1/4-p document during recess in Army-McCarthy hearings, that he did not get good look at person who handed it to him, that he is 'pretty sure' that it was not McCarthy or member of McCarthy staff; says later in positive terms that it was not McCarthy or aide; says he would not identify person even if he knew him; testifies he asked Hoover whether he would arrest him if he published document, that Hoover said that he would, that a wk or 10 days after receiving document he destroyed it, that some of the newsmen who witnessed incident might know identity of person who gave him document; Watkins asks volunteer witnesses from newsmen; none testifies; Winchell mentions M Kempton (NY Post), R McKee and A Spivak (INS) and J Patters on and J Greene (NY News) as possible witnesses; Kempton repts Watkins and com counsel Chadwick queried him; gives his version of incident; Spivak, McKee, Greene comment; Winchell testifies he heard that 35 other copies of document were given to Washington and NYC newspaper officials; McCarthy counsel Williams objects to testimony, holding Winchell does not know whether document was true copy of paper in McCarthy's possession; Chadwick submits brief citing and quoting laws and Pres directives relating to charges that McCarthy had unauthorized possession of classified document and that he incited Fed employes to give him secret data; Sen Flanders submits to Watkins memo charging Winchell violated Espionage Act by possessing document

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Notable Births

Mark Lindsay Chapman

1954Mark Lindsay Chapman, English actor[†]

Markus Lindsay Chapman is an English actor. He is known for his roles as Chief Officer Henry Wilde in the film Titanic (1997), as John Lennon in the film Chapter 27 (2007) and as Dr. Anton Arcane on the USA Network TV series Swamp Thing from 1990 to 1993.

Ruby Bridges

1954Ruby Bridges, American civil rights activist[†]

Ruby Nell Bridges Hall is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites-only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All Live With, by Norman Rockwell.

Johan Harmenberg

1954Johan Harmenberg, Swedish Olympic and world champion Ă©pĂ©e fencer[†]

Johan Georg Harmenberg Åkerman is a Swedish former Olympic gold medalist and a World Champion Ă©pĂ©e fencer.

Michael Shermer

1954Michael Shermer, American historian, author, and academic, founded The Skeptics Society[†]

Michael Brant Shermer is an American science writer, historian of science, executive director of The Skeptics Society, and founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, a publication focused on investigating pseudoscientific and supernatural claims. The author of over a dozen books, Shermer is known for engaging in debates on pseudoscience and religion in which he emphasizes scientific skepticism.

Notable Deaths

André Derain

1954AndrĂ© Derain, French painter and sculptor (born 1880)[†]

AndrĂ© Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder, with Henri Matisse, of Fauvism. His paintings of 1905–1906 are characterized by riotous colourism in the Fauve style. By 1910, however, his work had become more austere as a result of his study of CĂ©zanne and the old masters. After the First World War, Derain became one of the leaders of the new classicism in the arts known as the Return to Order.

Historical Events

Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

1954The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) is established.[†]

The Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO) was an international organization for collective defense in Southeast Asia created by the Southeast Asia Collective Defense Treaty signed in September 1954 in Manila, Philippines. The formal institution of SEATO was established on 19 February 1955 at a meeting of treaty partners in Bangkok, Thailand. The organization's headquarters was also in Bangkok. A total of eight members joined the organization in its lifetime.

Historical Context for September 8, 1954

In 1954, the world population was approximately 2,685,894,860 people[†]