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Priscilla Hiss. Priscilla Hiss (October 13, 1903 – October 14, 1984), born Priscilla Fansler and first married as Priscilla Hobson, was a 20th-century American teacher and book editor, best known as the wife of Alger Hiss, an alleged Communist and former State Department official whose innocence she supported with testimony throughout his two ...
Oct 15, 1984 · WILLIAM G. BLAIR. Priscilla Hiss, the wife of Alger Hiss, who steadfastly defended her husband at his two trials for perjury, died yesterday at St. Vincent's Hospital and Medical Center in ...
Priscilla Fansler, the youngest child of an insurance executive, was born in Philadelphia, in 1904. She studied literature and philosophy at Bryn Mawr. She met Alger Hiss in 1924 when she was on a trip to London. Although they exchanged addresses, she showed no particular interest in him.
Feb 13, 1978 · O n a crisp day in January 1950, Alger and Priscilla Hiss sat in a Manhattan courtroom, he pressing his lips in a tight smile, she fingering her handbag. A federal jury was ready to pass judgment ...
Testimony of Priscilla Hiss (first trial) Priscilla Hiss testified in both trials. She testified on direct examination that Whittaker Chambers was introduced to her as "Mr. Crosley" by her husband. She also testified that she received the Woodstock typewriter from her father in 1932. She admitted typing the four "Hiss standards" on the ...
Nov 16, 1996 · Alger Hiss, Convicted in Cold War Spy Scare, Dies. L.A. Times Archives. Nov. 16, ... Priscilla Hiss died in 1984 at the age of 81, and a year later Hiss married his companion of a quarter-century ...
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Nov 15, 1996 · 1936-37. Hiss and Chambers develop a close friendship, according to Chambers. They travel together, have dinners together, and Hiss transfers his 1929 Ford to Chambers. In the fall of 1936, Hiss leaves a job at the Justice Department to take a new job as assistant to Assistant Secretary of State Francis Sayre.
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