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Judiciary Counsel's Background Questioned
To me Dalas News:
William Safire's Jan. 21 column in
The News, Impeachment Study Unlike-
ly to be Fair, was a welcome but in-
complete glimpse at the submerged
background of Chicago attorney Albert
E. Jenner Jr., newly appointed minori-
ty counsel for the House Judiciary Com-
mittee deliberating impeachment of
President Nixon.
In hiring Jenner for this enormously
important responsibility, the House
committee has committed an unpardon-
able error in judgment. Since the late
Congressman Joe Pool (who served on
the House Committee on Un-American
Activities and was well acquainted with
Jenner's background) cannot rise to
protest, we offer some of the docu-
mented facts given us by Pool prior to
his death.
Hearings before the House Commit-
tee on Un-American Activities were
held in Chicago in May and June, 1965,
to investigate Communist party activi-ties in that area and to interview per-
sons who had been identified as Com-
munist party members. During these
hearings, Albert E. Jenner and his
partner Thomas P. Sullivan acted as le-
gal counsel for Yolanda Hall (an admit-
ted Communist party member in 1939)
and her employer, Dr. Jeremiah Stam.-
ler, a member of the Chicago Health
Research Foundation, whose Commu-
nist party affiliations had been reported
to the committee.
The hearings were repeatedly inter-
rupted by the heckling of planned dem-
onstrations while counsels Jenner and
Sullivan arrogantly flaunted the com-
mittee's rulings. Under instructions
from Jenner, both Mrs. Hall and Dr.
Stamler refused to testify and left the
hearing room in defiance of orders
from the committee chairman. Jenner
had to be removed from the hearings
for disrupting the proceedings. Arthur
Kinoy (then a law partner of the noto-rious William Kunstler) was "cocoun-
sel" with Jenner in representing Hall
and Stamler.
This is the same Albert E. Jenner
who, in two days during Senate hear-
ings in 1953, defended eight alleged
Communists, one of whom admitted his
Communist party membership, while
the other seven took the Fifth Amend-
ment when asked about communist af-
filiations.
Columnist Safire observed: "By its
choice of counsel, the House Judiciary
Committee has made it plain that it in-
tends to look busy for a few months and
then recommend the impeachment of
the President."
It is our sincere hope that the Judici-
ary Committee will be urged to correct
its incomprehensible error and examine
its own ethics.
,SUE B. FITCH.
MABETH EVANS SMOOT.
Dallas.DALLAS MORNING NEWS
Feb. 6, 1974
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Fitch, Sue B. & Smoot, Mabeth Evans. [Clipping: Judiciary Counsel's Background Questioned], clipping, February 6, 1974; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1661268/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Texas Southern University.