Un American Activities Committee (1948)

Unissued, unused footage dates and locations may be unclear, unknown. American newsreel titles read: ACCUSED OFFICIALS TESTIFY BEFORE HOUSE SPY PROBE United States of America. M, S of former aide to Roosevelt Lauchlin Currie being sworn in before UnAmerican Activities Committee. C, U of Lauchlin Currie. M, S of Currie speaking (natural sound). He says I welcome this opportunity to state again under oath, as I did before the Federal Grand Jury convened in the eastern district of New York to investigate the charges similar to those before this Committee, that I am not, and never have been, a Communist. M, S of reporters taking down statements. Several shots of Harry D White, former assistant Treasury Secretary, before the committee. He says he should like to state at the start that he is not now and never has been a Communist, nor even close to becoming one. He says that he cannot recollect ever knowing either a Miss Bentley (confessed spy Elizabeth Bentley) or Mr Whitaker Chambers. M, S