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64 / THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
Monday, December 5, 1949
Witness: William Rosen
Direct Examination by the Prosecution
Rosen was sixty-five years old. He was slight with gray hair and wore horn-rimmed glasses. His name appeared on the Motor Vehicle Bureau Department record as the buyer of Hiss's 1929 Ford, which Chambers said Hiss had donated for a Communist organizer.
Q* Were you in July 1936 connected with the Communist party?
A. I respectfully decline to answer this question on the grounds of the Fifth Amendment that I may incriminate myself, and on the grounds of the First Amendment that I don't have to divulge my associations.
Rosen spoke so softly, it was hard to hear him.
Q. Are you the William Rosen whose name is on the title certificate of Mr. Hiss's Ford car?
Juror's sketch*
*One juror made sketches of some of the witnesses.
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