Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1962-11-12
NIXON
|. Several TV Stations
] Cancel Hiss Program
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the program about the former
Vice President.
The Taft Broadcasting Co.
said it ordered the show off
Its two stations where it had
been scheduled, in Cincinnati
ard Columbus, Ohio. A Taft
official wired ABC that use
Of Alger Hiss as political COM
rnentator (was) contrary to-
public interest and in ex-I
tremely poor taste"
Walter H. Annenberg, editor
publisher of the Philadelphia
Inquirer and president of Tri-
angle Publications, ordered the
program off two Triangle sta
ti0t1s in Philadelphia and New
Haven. Conn. He said he did
not see that any useful pur-
pose would be served by having
Mr.. Hiss comment about 81
distinguished American tMr.
Nixon"
Hiss Found entity
Mr.. Nixon. as a United States
Representative from Califor-
mia, started a 194S congress
sional investigation of Mr..
Hiss, who had been a high
official in the State Depart |
rlent. The probe conferred |
about charges by the late
Whitaker Chambers that Mr.. |
Hiss had been a member of a
Communist underground cell.
Mr.. Hiss later was convicted I
OF perjury for denying he
passed information to the Rus
slams. Now out of prison, he
Is a New York City printing
salesman.
ABC Commentator Howard
K. Smith tapped the television
program after Mr.. Nixon's de-
feat in the California guberna-
torial election last Tuesday.
After his unsuccessful at
tempt to unseat Democratic
Gov. Edmund @. (Pat) Brown,
Mr.. Nixon issued a statement
the next day indicating he was
retiring from politics. II
, Assessment by Hiss ,
Mr.. Hiss said on Mr.. Smiths {
program that Mr.. Nixon was a [
congressional investigator who .
was less interested in Develop
ing the facts effectively than
In seeking ways of making a {
pre-conceived plan appear I
plausible" t
More interested, in other s
words, in molding appearances
to a point of view that he be-
gan with, than in effectively
developing the facts of the sit
Mr.. Hiss added. ]
In California, Mr.. Klein is
sued this statement: Is
Those of us who have known
Mr.. Nixon for many years were
utterly shocked by the inaccu-
racies in this program. They
apparently resulted from an
attempt to distort the life of
a great American who has just
suffered defeat.
THE Howard K. Smith pro- I
gram set a new low in undis-
tinguished reporting. 1t set out 9
to kick Richard Nixon and ac- S
complished its goal by avoid !
Ing the facts, substituting in !
in its Interpretation of y
his career. n
Bias Is Charged t
1.-THE innuendo that Mr.. =
Nixon had painted Ambassa- =
ior (AdlaD Stevenson, former ;,
Truman and Dean :,
Acheson as traitors was a par
sicularly disgraceful example \
Of the inaccuracy and bias in =
this piece Of television report "
ing" SIS =
ABC said 30 or more stations T
carried the half-hour program, \
aired on the 5Sth birthday of :
Mr.. Hiss. =
Mr.. Nixon is 40. From the $
first big political boost he got
rs a member of the House
Committee on Un-American
activities. Mr.. Nixon went on .
TO become a United States Sen
Ator and then Vice President !.
n the Eisenhower administra- =
lion. In 1860 he was the I'M :
successful Republican nominee :
TO succeed President Eisen- :,
hover.
Hagerty Comments 6
James c. Hagerty, ABC vice r
president in charge Of news !,
and White House press secre- n
tary under Gen. Eisenhower, n
said there was no attempt to 7
glorify Hiss" on the program. n
Mr.. Hagerty said Mr.. Hiss was b
allowed to present his feelings
On Mr.. Nixon, and that was
followed Immediately by a i
contradictory view from Jerry a
Ford UNITED States Repre- a
sentative Gerald r. Ford, jr., S
Republican Of Michigan a
Mr.. Ford said on the pro- t
gram. THE American people b
owe a great deal to Dick Nixon
for his dedication to finding S
but all of the possible facts 7
that the committee could find
out about the Alger Hiss case
and its ramifications."