In 1948 TIME magazine editor Whittaker Chambers (1901-1961) testified that in the 1930s he helped organize a Communist spy ring in the U.S. government. His accusations against State Department official Alger Hiss stunned the nation. Jay Vivian Chambers w...

Whittaker Chambers was a confessed spy for the Soviet Union and the chief witness in the 1949 perjury trials of Alger Hiss. Chambers accused Hiss, who had been an important official with the U.S. State Department during the 1930s and 1940s, of being a Co...

Whittaker Chambers achieved public renown as the principal informant in what became the greatest espionage trial of the Cold War. In August 1948 Chambers informed the House of Representatives' Committee on Un-American Activities (HCUA) that he had been a...

Used in a law-court to a person who has been called to give evidence. The witness is not necessarily someone who saw or heard something relevant to a crime, but someone who has useful knowledge to contribute in a more general way. The original meaning...

A dark night has no witnesses. (Serbian) Better one eyewitness than ten hearsay witnesses. (Dutch) No man should be a witness in his own cause. (Roman) One witness, no witness. (Roman) One witness, one liar; more witnesses, all liars. (Greek) The...

A person who gives evidence before a court. In general the evidence of two witnesses is necessary to prove a criminal charge against the accused. (See also *BET...

This has a number of non-educational meanings, but in education expert witnesses are sometimes used in specific teaching methods, such as a panel or as visiting...

Written by the man who testified against Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers recounts his break from the Communist Party and the espionage work he did for the Soviet secret police. The title has a dual meaning, as Chambers also talks of his conversion to...

A list of potential witnesses in the obstruction and perjury trial of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney. Prosecution and defense lawyers are not required to provide lists of their witnesses. These names were drawn from court documents...

With her dying gasp after being shot through the mouth, actress Lana Clarkson may have breathed out blood that spattered on Phil Spector's jacket, a forensic pathologist testified Thursday in the music producer's murder trial.But Dr. Werner Spitz said that would not change his opinion...

A victims' rights group released documents Thursday that showed the Jehovah's Witnesses recently settled civil suits with 16 people who claimed they were sexually abused by church elders or that church officials failed to act on abuse allegations.The group, called silentlambs, held a news conference...

Two unidentified witnesses appeared Thursday before a federal grand jury investigating Blackwater Worldwide, a government contractor whose security guards were involved in a shooting that killed 17 Iraqi civilians in Baghdad.National security prosecutors Kenneth Kohl and Stephen Ponticiello, who are handling the Blackwater case, spent...