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...recently-introduced bill calls upon the legislators of the Commonwealth at long last to reverse legally the convictions of the victims of the most famous judicial injustice in American history--the Salem witch trials...
...notoriety which the judgment of history has fastened upon the Salem witch-hunts, the true story of the trials is a little-known one. It is an intensely dramatic story, numbering among its villains many of the great men of colonial Massachusetts. And in the hero's role stands a President of Harvard College...
...modern psychiatry. But to the Puritans of Salem, indeed to any seventeenth century man, these were puzzling and frightening phenomena. The most plausible explanation seemed to be that the children had been bewitched. After all, everyone know the power of the Devil and no one doubted the existence of witches. Does not the Bible say: "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live."? And had not one of the most learned men of the day, the eminent Cotton Mather, recently published a voluminous work on the evidences of witchcraft...
...perhaps date the beginning not only of the excessive power and renown of many Johnny-come-lately antiCommunists, but on the other side, what might be thought of as a new united front in some liberal colleges and universities, admission to which is gained by denouncing 'witch hunts' and refusing to cooperate with them ... In some colleges, professors who testify before the Velde or Jenner committees with dignity and restraint (often educating committee members in the process, as Hiss so notably failed to do) are slandered as appeasers. To the extent that Communists, by such tactics...
...This is the general confusion that let Odysseus out of the giant's cave, and in the scramble, the real ethical problem- to what extent one should tell the committee, not about oneself, but about others-is obscured. The very term 'witch hunt' is obscurantist...