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No sooner had the Oppenheimer affair subsided than President Morrill was faced with more “loyalty” problems, including
another case before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
• The next HUAC suspect was the mysteriously named “Scientist X,” who was accused of being a Soviet agent. Scientist X
turned out to be Joseph Weinberg, an untenured assistant professor of physics and one of the men Nixon had attempted
to get Oppenheimer to implicate. The charges against Weinberg—spying—were more serious than those lodged against
Oppenheimer. In 1950 Weinberg was indicted for contempt of court for refusing to answer questions during a grand jury
hearing, and Morrill soon suspended him. Weinberg was subsequently cleared of contempt charges and in 1953 was
acquitted of perjury, the only charge remaining against him.
• Forrest Wiggins, an African American instructor in the philosophy department, became a legislative target because of his
leftist political beliefs. He lost his job in 1950 because of poor scholarship, according to Morrill.
• Two teaching assistants, Eugene Bluestein and Jules Chametzky, were accused of being Communists in 1954. A university
board of inquiry cleared them of these charges but a cloud of suspicion continued to hover over them.
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