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Originally posted by Spanky
Why didn't fisher say it was a mistake to be part of the Lawyers Guild. Or claim that the Lawyers Guild is not a communist organization and if it was he would not be a member.
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Fisher wasn't a witness, and wasn't even present for the exchange (he apparently had been rejected from working on the case with Welch because of the NLG issue).
The exchange came up when Welch was questioning Roy Cohn about whether Cohn had given the FBI a list of communists working at defense plants, and McCarthy interrupted the questioning to point out that a member of Welch's law firm (Hale & Dorr) was a communist because he had been a NLG volunteer.
