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Summary Information
Jeremiah Stamler Papers
1938-1976
Mss 684; PH 3670; DC 808-DC 809
16.0 cubic feet (13 records center cartons, 2 archives boxes, and 2 flat boxes), 13 photographs, and 2 reels of film (16 mm)
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Papers of Jeremiah Stamler, a distinguished Chicago physician and cardiovascular researcher who refused to testify at a 1965 hearing of the House Un-American Activities Committee and instead filed a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of the Committee. The collection includes legal papers from the three lawsuits involved: the original suit, Stamler v. Willis; the Committee's criminal contempt of Congress suit, United States v. Stamler; and a counterclaim, Stamler v. Mitchell. The lawsuits were joined by Dr. Stamler's research assistant, Yolanda Hall, and intervening plaintiff Milton M. Cohen. Also present are a few personal materials, and research materials created and collected by Stamler's lawyers, Albert E. Jenner Jr., Thomas P. Sullivan, and Chester Kamin. Included is a major statistical study conducted by Dr. Hans Zeisel, University of Chicago, of the effects of the Committee's subpoena power and the results of testifying or refusing to testify at a HUAC hearing. In 1973, after the House Committee on Committees unanimously recommended that the government's lawsuit be dropped and the Committee be eliminated, the contempt suit was dismissed at the government's request. Subsequently, Stamler and Hall withdrew their civil suits. Photographs includes images of District Court proceedings, courtroom interiors, and White Supremacist movement protesters outside the courtroom. Also includes the film Committee on un-American Activities, a Robert Cohen production.
English
http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00684
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