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98 / THE ALGER HISS TRIAL
Witness: Geoffrey May
Direct Examination by the Defense
May and his wife lived in an attached house on 30th Street, next door to the Hisses. One of their windows overlooked the entrance to the Hiss house. May often saw their visitors. The defense showed May a photograph of Chambers taken around 1936.
The house on 30th Street .
May said he had
never seen anyone resembling him visit the Hisses.
Q. What color was the outside of the 30th Street
house in 1936?
A. Bright yellow with vivid blue blinds. In 1938 the
new tenants painted it gray with dark, gray-green
blinds.
May's description of the outside colors of the Hisses' house contradicted Mrs. Chambers's.
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