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Please state your name and address.
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David Merrill.
2851 Winona Place, Hollywood, California.
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CHAIRMAN: Please stand.
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CHAIRMAN: Hold up your right hand.
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CHAIRMAN: You do solemnly swear...
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...that you will tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth?
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DAVID: I do.
CHAIRMAN: Be seated.
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CHAIRMAN:
Mr. Merrill is represented by counsel.
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CHAIRMAN: Counsel, identify yourself.
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Felix Graff. 1830 Jefferson Place,
Los Angeles, California.
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Proceed, Mr. Tavenner.
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Your profession is that of a film director?
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Yes.
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TAVENNER: Let's begin by getting one matter
cleared up at once.
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Mr. Merrill, are you now a member
of the Communist Party?
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No.
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TAVENNER: Were you ever a member?
DAVID: No.
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TAVENNER: Did you attend
Communist Party meetings in the fall of 1 939?
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Twelve years ago in an organization...
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...as perfectly legal as the Republican
or Democratic Party...
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...where they were getting together to talk
about new ideas...
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...yes, I attended a few
Communist Party meetings.
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TAVENNER: Under what circumstances did
you attend these meetings? When? Where?
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Well, I only attended two or three,
at the most...
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...over a period of two or three weeks.
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TAVENNER: Under what circumstances
did you stop attending?