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Luca Giordano (1634-1705), active in Naples, Florence and Madrid
The Archangel Michael overthrows the apostate angels, around 1664
When a part of the angels rebelled against God, they were overthrown by the Archangel Michael into the abyss of hell. The desperately screaming, distorted faces of the defeated angels - now turned into devils - testify to the stark realism of the Spanish-Neapolitan court painter Jusepe de Ribera. In the refined colorfulness of Michael, too, the work is dominated by the Venetian influenced palette of Ribera. The altarpiece, whose original destination is unknown, was in the late 18th century taken from the Viennese Minorite Church to the Imperial Gallery.
Luca Giordano (1634-1705), tätig in Neapel, Florenz und Madrid
Der Erzengel Michael stürzt die abtrünnigen Engel, um 1664
Als sich ein Teil der Engel gegen Gott empörte, wurden diese vom Erzengel Michael in den Abgrund der Hölle gestürzt. Die verzweifelt schreienden, verzerrten Gesichter der besiegten Engel - nun zu Teufeln geworden - zeugen vom krassen Realismus des spanisch-neapolitanischen Hofmalers Jusepe de Ribera. Auch in der raffinierten Farbigkeit des Michael ist das Werk von der venezianisch beeinflussten Palette Riberas bestimmt. Das Altarbild, dessen ursprünglicher Bestimmungsort unbekannt ist, wurde im späten 18. Jahrhundert aus der Wiener Minoritenkirche in die kaiserliche Gemäldegalerie gebracht.
Austria Kunsthistorisches Museum
Federal Museum
Logo KHM
Regulatory authority (ies)/organs to the Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Culture
Founded 17 October 1891
Headquartered Castle Ring (Burgring), Vienna 1, Austria
Management Sabine Haag
www.khm.at website
Main building of the Kunsthistorisches Museum at Maria-Theresa-Square
The Kunsthistorisches Museum (KHM abbreviated) is an art museum in Vienna. It is one of the largest and most important museums in the world. It was opened in 1891 and 2012 visited of 1.351.940 million people.
The museum
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is with its opposite sister building, the Natural History Museum (Naturhistorisches Museum), the most important historicist large buildings of the Ringstrasse time. Together they stand around the Maria Theresa square, on which also the Maria Theresa monument stands. This course spans the former glacis between today's ring road and 2-line, and is forming a historical landmark that also belongs to World Heritage Site Historic Centre of Vienna.
History
Archduke Leopold Wilhelm in his Gallery
The Museum came from the collections of the Habsburgs, especially from the portrait and armor collections of Ferdinand of Tyrol, the collection of Emperor Rudolf II (most of which, however scattered) and the art collection of Archduke Leopold Wilhelm into existence. Already In 1833 asked Joseph Arneth, curator (and later director) of the Imperial Coins and Antiquities Cabinet, bringing together all the imperial collections in a single building .
Architectural History
The contract to build the museum in the city had been given in 1858 by Emperor Franz Joseph. Subsequently, many designs were submitted for the ring road zone. Plans by August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Null planned to build two museum buildings in the immediate aftermath of the Imperial Palace on the left and right of the Heroes' Square (Heldenplatz). The architect Ludwig Förster planned museum buildings between the Schwarzenberg Square and the City Park, Martin Ritter von Kink favored buildings at the corner Währingerstraße/ Scots ring (Schottenring), Peter Joseph, the area Bellariastraße, Moritz von Loehr the south side of the opera ring, and Ludwig Zettl the southeast side of the grain market (Getreidemarkt).
From 1867, a competition was announced for the museums, and thereby set their current position - at the request of the Emperor, the museum should not be too close to the Imperial Palace, but arise beyond the ring road. The architect Carl von Hasenauer participated in this competition and was able the at that time in Zürich operating Gottfried Semper to encourage to work together. The two museum buildings should be built here in the sense of the style of the Italian Renaissance. The plans got the benevolence of the imperial family. In April 1869, there was an audience with of Joseph Semper at the Emperor Franz Joseph and an oral contract was concluded, in July 1870 was issued the written order to Semper and Hasenauer.
Crucial for the success of Semper and Hasenauer against the projects of other architects were among others Semper's vision of a large building complex called "Imperial Forum", in which the museums would have been a part of. Not least by the death of Semper in 1879 came the Imperial Forum not as planned for execution, the two museums were built, however.
Construction of the two museums began without ceremony on 27 November 1871 instead. Semper moved to Vienna in the sequence. From the beginning, there were considerable personal differences between him and Hasenauer, who finally in 1877 took over sole construction management. 1874, the scaffolds were placed up to the attic and the first floor completed, built in 1878, the first windows installed in 1879, the Attica and the balustrade from 1880 to 1881 and built the dome and the Tabernacle. The dome is topped with a bronze statue of Pallas Athena by Johannes Benk.
The lighting and air conditioning concept with double glazing of the ceilings made the renunciation of artificial light (especially at that time, as gas light) possible, but this resulted due to seasonal variations depending on daylight to different opening times .
Kuppelhalle
Entrance (by clicking the link at the end of the side you can see all the pictures here indicated!)
Grand staircase
Hall
Empire
The Kunsthistorisches Museum was on 17 October 1891 officially opened by Emperor Franz Joseph I. Since 22 October 1891 , the museum is accessible to the public. Two years earlier, on 3 November 1889, the collection of arms, Arms and Armour today, had their doors open. On 1 January 1890 the library service resumed its operations. The merger and listing of other collections of the Highest Imperial Family from the Upper and Lower Belvedere, the Hofburg Palace and Ambras in Tyrol will need another two years.
189, the farm museum was organized in seven collections with three directorates:
Directorate of coins, medals and antiquities collection
The Egyptian Collection
The Antique Collection
The coins and medals collection
Management of the collection of weapons, art and industrial objects
Weapons collection
Collection of industrial art objects
Directorate of Art Gallery and Restaurieranstalt (Restoration Office)
Collection of watercolors, drawings, sketches, etc.
Restoration Office
Library
Very soon the room the Court Museum (Hofmuseum) for the imperial collections was offering became too narrow. To provide temporary help, an exhibition of ancient artifacts from Ephesus in the Theseus Temple was designed. However, additional space had to be rented in the Lower Belvedere.
1914, after the assassination of Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne, his " Estonian Forensic Collection " passed to the administration of the Court Museum. This collection, which emerged from the art collection of the house of d' Este and world travel collection of Franz Ferdinand, was placed in the New Imperial Palace since 1908. For these stocks, the present collection of old musical instruments and the Museum of Ethnology emerged.
The First World War went by, apart from the oppressive economic situation without loss. The farm museum remained during the five years of war regularly open to the public.
Until 1919 the K.K. Art Historical Court Museum was under the authority of the Oberstkämmereramt (head chamberlain office) and belonged to the House of Habsburg-Lorraine. The officials and employees were part of the royal household.
First Republic
The transition from monarchy to republic, in the museum took place in complete tranquility. On 19 November 1918 the two imperial museums on Maria Theresa Square were placed under the state protection of the young Republic of German Austria. Threatening to the stocks of the museum were the claims raised in the following weeks and months of the "successor states" of the monarchy as well as Italy and Belgium on Austrian art collection. In fact, it came on 12th February 1919 to the violent removal of 62 paintings by armed Italian units. This "art theft" left a long time trauma among curators and art historians.
It was not until the Treaty of Saint-Germain of 10 September 1919, providing in Article 195 and 196 the settlement of rights in the cultural field by negotiations. The claims of Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Italy again could mostly being averted in this way. Only Hungary, which presented the greatest demands by far, was met by more than ten years of negotiation in 147 cases.
On 3 April 1919 was the expropriation of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine by law and the acquisition of its property, including the "Collections of the Imperial House" , by the Republic. Of 18 June 1920 the then provisional administration of the former imperial museums and collections of Este and the secular and clergy treasury passed to the State Office of Internal Affairs and Education, since 10 November 1920, the Federal Ministry of the Interior and Education. A few days later it was renamed the Art History Court Museum in the "Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna State", 1921 "Kunsthistorisches Museum" . Of 1st January 1921 the employees of the museum staff passed to the state of the Republic.
Through the acquisition of the former imperial collections owned by the state, the museum found itself in a complete new situation. In order to meet the changed circumstances in the museum area, designed Hans Tietze in 1919 the "Vienna Museum program". It provided a close cooperation between the individual museums to focus at different houses on main collections. So dominated exchange, sales and equalizing the acquisition policy in the interwar period. Thus resulting until today still valid collection trends. Also pointing the way was the relocation of the weapons collection from 1934 in its present premises in the New Castle, where since 1916 the collection of ancient musical instruments was placed.
With the change of the imperial collections in the ownership of the Republic the reorganization of the internal organization went hand in hand, too. Thus the museum was divided in 1919 into the
Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection (with the Oriental coins)
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Collection of ancient coins
Collection of modern coins and medals
Weapons collection
Collection of sculptures and crafts with the Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Picture Gallery
The Museum 1938-1945
Count Philipp Ludwig Wenzel Sinzendorf according to Rigaud. Clarisse 1948 by Baroness de Rothschildt "dedicated" to the memory of Baron Alphonse de Rothschildt; restituted to the Rothschilds in 1999, and in 1999 donated by Bettina Looram Rothschild, the last Austrian heiress.
With the "Anschluss" of Austria to the German Reich all Jewish art collections such as the Rothschilds were forcibly "Aryanised". Collections were either "paid" or simply distributed by the Gestapo at the museums. This resulted in a significant increase in stocks. But the KHM was not the only museum that benefited from the linearization. Systematically looted Jewish property was sold to museums, collections or in pawnshops throughout the empire.
After the war, the museum struggled to reimburse the "Aryanised" art to the owners or their heirs. They forced the Rothschild family to leave the most important part of their own collection to the museum and called this "dedications", or "donations". As a reason, was the export law stated, which does not allow owners to perform certain works of art out of the country. Similar methods were used with other former owners. Only on the basis of international diplomatic and media pressure, to a large extent from the United States, the Austrian government decided to make a change in the law (Art Restitution Act of 1998, the so-called Lex Rothschild). The art objects were the Rothschild family refunded only in the 1990s.
The Kunsthistorisches Museum operates on the basis of the federal law on the restitution of art objects from the 4th December 1998 (Federal Law Gazette I, 181 /1998) extensive provenance research. Even before this decree was carried out in-house provenance research at the initiative of the then archive director Herbert Haupt. This was submitted in 1998 by him in collaboration with Lydia Grobl a comprehensive presentation of the facts about the changes in the inventory levels of the Kunsthistorisches Museum during the Nazi era and in the years leading up to the State Treaty of 1955, an important basis for further research provenance.
The two historians Susanne Hehenberger and Monika Löscher are since 1st April 2009 as provenance researchers at the Kunsthistorisches Museum on behalf of the Commission for Provenance Research operating and they deal with the investigation period from 1933 to the recent past.
The museum today
Today the museum is as a federal museum, with 1st January 1999 released to the full legal capacity - it was thus the first of the state museums of Austria, implementing the far-reaching self-financing. It is by far the most visited museum in Austria with 1.3 million visitors (2007).
The Kunsthistorisches Museum is under the name Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum with company number 182081t since 11 June 1999 as a research institution under public law of the Federal virtue of the Federal Museums Act, Federal Law Gazette I/115/1998 and the Museum of Procedure of the Kunsthistorisches Museum and Museum of Ethnology and the Austrian Theatre Museum, 3 January 2001, BGBl II 2/ 2001, in force since 1 January 2001, registered.
In fiscal 2008, the turnover was 37.185 million EUR and total assets amounted to EUR 22.204 million. In 2008 an average of 410 workers were employed.
Management
1919-1923: Gustav Glück as the first chairman of the College of science officials
1924-1933: Hermann Julius Hermann 1924-1925 as the first chairman of the College of the scientific officers in 1925 as first director
1933: Arpad Weixlgärtner first director
1934-1938: Alfred Stix first director
1938-1945: Fritz Dworschak 1938 as acting head, from 1938 as a chief in 1941 as first director
1945-1949: August von Loehr 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of the historical collections of the Federation
1945-1949: Alfred Stix 1945-1948 as executive director of the State Art Collections in 1949 as general director of art historical collections of the Federation
1949-1950: Hans Demel as administrative director
1950: Karl Wisoko-Meytsky as general director of art and historical collections of the Federation
1951-1952: Fritz Eichler as administrative director
1953-1954: Ernst H. Buschbeck as administrative director
1955-1966: Vincent Oberhammer 1955-1959 as administrative director, from 1959 as first director
1967: Edward Holzmair as managing director
1968-1972: Erwin Auer first director
1973-1981: Friderike Klauner first director
1982-1990: Hermann Fillitz first director
1990: George Kugler as interim first director
1990-2008: Wilfried Seipel as general director
Since 2009: Sabine Haag as general director
Collections
To the Kunsthistorisches Museum are also belonging the collections of the New Castle, the Austrian Theatre Museum in Palais Lobkowitz, the Museum of Ethnology and the Wagenburg (wagon fortress) in an outbuilding of Schönbrunn Palace. A branch office is also Ambras in Innsbruck.
Kunsthistorisches Museum (main building)
Picture Gallery
Egyptian and Near Eastern Collection
Collection of Classical Antiquities
Vienna Chamber of Art
Numismatic Collection
Library
New Castle
Ephesus Museum
Collection of Ancient Musical Instruments
Arms and Armour
Archive
Hofburg
The imperial crown in the Treasury
Imperial Treasury of Vienna
Insignia of the Austrian Hereditary Homage
Insignia of imperial Austria
Insignia of the Holy Roman Empire
Burgundian Inheritance and the Order of the Golden Fleece
Habsburg-Lorraine Household Treasure
Ecclesiastical Treasury
Schönbrunn Palace
Imperial Carriage Museum Vienna
Armory in Ambras Castle
Ambras Castle
Collections of Ambras Castle
Major exhibits
Among the most important exhibits of the Art Gallery rank inter alia:
Jan van Eyck: Cardinal Niccolò Albergati, 1438
Martin Schongauer: Holy Family, 1475-80
Albrecht Dürer : Trinity Altar, 1509-16
Portrait Johann Kleeberger, 1526
Parmigianino: Self Portrait in Convex Mirror, 1523/24
Giuseppe Arcimboldo: Summer 1563
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary 1606/ 07
Caravaggio: Madonna of the Rosary (1606-1607)
Titian: Nymph and Shepherd to 1570-75
Portrait of Jacopo de Strada, 1567/68
Raffaello Santi: Madonna of the Meadow, 1505 /06
Lorenzo Lotto: Portrait of a young man against white curtain, 1508
Peter Paul Rubens: The altar of St. Ildefonso, 1630-32
The Little Fur, about 1638
Jan Vermeer: The Art of Painting, 1665/66
Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Fight between Carnival and Lent, 1559
Kids, 1560
Tower of Babel, 1563
Christ Carrying the Cross, 1564
Gloomy Day (Early Spring), 1565
Return of the Herd (Autumn), 1565
Hunters in the Snow (Winter) 1565
Bauer and bird thief, 1568
Peasant Wedding, 1568/69
Peasant Dance, 1568/69
Paul's conversion (Conversion of St Paul), 1567
Cabinet of Curiosities:
Saliera from Benvenuto Cellini 1539-1543
Egyptian-Oriental Collection:
Mastaba of Ka Ni Nisut
Collection of Classical Antiquities:
Gemma Augustea
Treasure of Nagyszentmiklós
Gallery: Major exhibits
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan testifies before the Senate Committee on CBP Oversight: Examing the Evolving Challenges Facing the Agency in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2020. CBP photos by Jaime Rodriguez Sr
William Remington, a Commerce Department employee, is shown in his office in a photo published June 9, 1950 after he was indicted for perjury for denying he had ever been a member of a communist organization.
He faced charges in 1948 in the U.S. Senate and by the government loyalty board that he passed valuable wartime secrets to the Soviet Union.
He denied the allegations at that time and stated he had never been a member of the Communist Party or the Young Communist League..
However he was suspended from duty but cleared of the charges and reinstated to his job.
However, in 1950 he was brought up on criminal charges for perjury, convicted and, after two trials, sent to prison where he was murdered for his alleged communist sympathies.
Remington was as an economist at the U.S. Commerce Department and other federal agencies over a 15 year period. He was investigated numerous times for alleged communist ties, tried twice for perjury and sent to jail where he was murdered.
In college, he became active with members of the Young Communist League, and later the Communist Party of the United States. In testimony, Remington stated that while he was a Republican when he entered college, he “moved left quite rapidly”; and became a radical but was never a Communist Party or Young Communist League member at Dartmouth.
Whether or not he ever officially joined the party later became a point of contention in his legal battles.
He was first investigated in 1941 where he admitted having been active in Communist-allied groups such as the American Peace Mobilization, but denied any sympathy with communism and swore under oath that he was not and had never been a member of the Communist Party. His security clearance was granted.
In March 1942 and continuing for two years, Remington had occasional meetings with Elizabeth Bentley at which he passed her information. Bentley was a spy for the Soviet Union.
This material included data on airplane production and other matters concerning the aircraft industry, as well as some information on an experimental process for manufacturing synthetic rubber. Remington later claimed that he was unaware that Bentley was connected with the Communist Party, that he believed she was a journalist and researcher, and that the information he gave her was not secret.
Fearing the FBI was closing in on her, Bentley became an informant for the government in 1945 and named Remington as one of her sources of information.
In 1947, Remington was interviewed by the FBI and also questioned before a federal grand jury in New York City about the information he had given to Elizabeth Bentley. He testified that no secret information was involved, and the issue seemed to end there.
In an apparent attempt to bolster belief in his innocence, Remington became an anti-communist informer from this time and for the following year. He sent the FBI information on over fifty people, only four of whom were connected with his own case.
Most of those he named he had never met. He accused them of being Communists, isolationists, Negro nationalists, or “extreme liberals.”; He also verbally attacked his wife Ann, from whom he was now estranged, and his mother-in-law Elizabeth Moos, both avowed Communists.
Another loyalty investigation of Remington was opened early in 1948, and in June, he was relieved of his duties pending the findings of that investigation. In July of that year, the New York World-Telegram published a series of articles about Elizabeth Bentley, and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations opened hearings to investigate her charges.
At these hearings, Bentley made her accusations against Remington public and Remington in turn denied them. The Washington Post called him “a boob...who was duped by clever Communist agents.”
At his loyalty review hearings, Remington downplayed his earlier connections with Communist and leftist organizations and claimed that his wife's adherence to Communist doctrine was the reason for the end of their marriage.
While testifying before the Senate, Bentley was protected from libel suits. When she repeated her charge that Remington was a Communist on NBC Radio's Meet the Press, he sued her and NBC for libel.
The Loyalty Review Board noted that the only serious evidence against Remington was “the uncorroborated statement of a woman who refuses to submit herself to cross-examination,”; and cleared Remington to return to his government post (photo above). The libel suit was settled out of court shortly thereafter, with NBC paying Remington $10,000.
In 1950, the FBI and the federal grand jury in New York City reopened their investigations of Remington and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opened a third.
Ann Remington, now divorced from him, was subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury. Initially reluctant, she testified that her husband had been a dues-paying member of the Communist Party, and that he had given secret information to Elizabeth Bentley while knowing that Bentley was a Communist.
The grand jury decided to indict Remington for committing perjury when he denied ever being a member of the Communist Party.
Remington was convicted at trial, but it was revealed that the jury foreman had a personal relationship with Elizabeth Bentley and had agreed to co-author a book with her.
He was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to five years in prison. His conviction was overturned on appeal for “judicial improprieties” and unclear instructions from the judge as to what constituted membership in the Communist Party.
The second Remington trial began in January 1953 and he was quickly convicted of two counts of perjury—specifically for lying when he said he had not given secret information to Elizabeth Bentley and that he did not know of the existence of the Young Communist League, which had a chapter at Dartmouth while Remington was a student there.
He was sentenced to three years in prison. On the morning of Nov. 22, 1954 he was murdered in Lewisburg Penitentiary for his communist association by three inmates—a career criminal named George McCoy, a juvenile offender named Lewis Cagle Jr. and a third man—D.C. resident Carl Parker.
Cagle used a piece of brick in a sock as a weapon, striking Remington four times on the head. Despite McCoy’s repeated remarks about Remington’s communism, the FBI said that robbery was the motive.
When Cagle confessed, the FBI instructed him to describe the crime as if he and McCoy had been trying to rob Remington. When McCoy confessed four days later, he said he hated Remington for being a Communist and denied any robbery motive.
Both men pled guilty and were sentenced to life in prison. Parker received a 20-year term. All three had been in prison for transporting stolen cars across state lines.
Remington’s legacy is that of the third person to die as a result of the Second Red Scare following Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s execution. When he was killed in prison he was a pitiful figure who had no friends on the left after his betrayal of them and no sympathy on the right for what was regarded as his criminal actions.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmCQG6iJ
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”.
Photographer: Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan delivers testimony on immigration policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2018. Seen here are Senators Feinstein, Leahy and Durbin who had questions for the Commissioner.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan delivers testimony on immigration policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan testifies before the Senate Committee on CBP Oversight: Examing the Evolving Challenges Facing the Agency in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2020. CBP photos by Jaime Rodriguez Sr
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan testifies before the Senate Committee on CBP Oversight: Examing the Evolving Challenges Facing the Agency in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2020. CBP photos by Jaime Rodriguez Sr
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan testifies before the Senate Committee on CBP Oversight: Examing the Evolving Challenges Facing the Agency in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2020. CBP photos by Jaime Rodriguez Sr
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”.
Photographer: Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan testifies before the Senate Committee on CBP Oversight: Examing the Evolving Challenges Facing the Agency in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2020. CBP photos by Jaime Rodriguez Sr
Commerce Department employee charged with passing secrets to the Soviet Union William W. Remington (left) confers with his accuser, Elizabeth Bentley, during a Senate committee hearing August 2, 1948.
The two were in the audience while Louis Budenz, the anti-communist former editor of the Daily Worker, was testifying.
Bentley was part of a group that passed classified information to the Soviet Union during World War II but turned herself in and began testifying against others. The Soviet Union was an ally of the U.S. at the time.
Remington faced charges in 1948 in the U.S. Senate and by the government loyalty board that he also passed valuable wartime secrets to the Soviet Union.
He denied the allegations at that time and stated he had never been a member of the Communist Party or the Young Communist League..
However he was suspended from duty but cleared of the charges and reinstated to his job. However, in 1950 he was brought up on criminal charges for perjury, convicted and ,after two trials, sent to prison where he was murdered for his alleged communist sympathies.
Remington was as an economist at the U.S. Commerce Department and other federal agencies over a 15 year period. He was investigated numerous times for alleged communist ties, tried twice for perjury and sent to jail where he was murdered.
In college, he became active with members of the Young Communist League, and later the Communist Party of the United States. In testimony, Remington stated that while he was a Republican when he entered college, he “moved left quite rapidly”; and became a radical but was never a Communist Party or Young Communist League member at Dartmouth.
Whether or not he ever officially joined the party later became a point of contention in his legal battles.
He was first investigated in 1941 where he admitted having been active in Communist-allied groups such as the American Peace Mobilization, but denied any sympathy with communism and swore under oath that he was not and had never been a member of the Communist Party. His security clearance was granted.
In March 1942 and continuing for two years, Remington had occasional meetings with Elizabeth Bentley at which he passed her information. Bentley was a spy for the Soviet Union.
This material included data on airplane production and other matters concerning the aircraft industry, as well as some information on an experimental process for manufacturing synthetic rubber. Remington later claimed that he was unaware that Bentley was connected with the Communist Party, that he believed she was a journalist and researcher, and that the information he gave her was not secret.
Fearing the FBI was closing in on her, Bentley became an informant for the government in 1945 and named Remington as one of her sources of information.
In 1947, Remington was interviewed by the FBI and also questioned before a federal grand jury in New York City about the information he had given to Elizabeth Bentley. He testified that no secret information was involved, and the issue seemed to end there.
In an apparent attempt to bolster belief in his innocence, Remington became an anti-communist informer from this time and for the following year. He sent the FBI information on over fifty people, only four of whom were connected with his own case.
Most of those he named he had never met. He accused them of being Communists, isolationists, Negro nationalists, or “extreme liberals.”; He also verbally attacked his wife Ann, from whom he was now estranged, and his mother-in-law Elizabeth Moos, both avowed Communists.
Another loyalty investigation of Remington was opened early in 1948, and in June, he was relieved of his duties pending the findings of that investigation. In July of that year, the New York World-Telegram published a series of articles about Elizabeth Bentley, and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations opened hearings to investigate her charges.
At these hearings, Bentley made her accusations against Remington public and Remington in turn denied them. The Washington Post called him “a boob...who was duped by clever Communist agents.”
At his loyalty review hearings, Remington downplayed his earlier connections with Communist and leftist organizations and claimed that his wife's adherence to Communist doctrine was the reason for the end of their marriage.
While testifying before the Senate, Bentley was protected from libel suits. When she repeated her charge that Remington was a Communist on NBC Radio's Meet the Press, he sued her and NBC for libel.
The Loyalty Review Board noted that the only serious evidence against Remington was “the uncorroborated statement of a woman who refuses to submit herself to cross-examination,”; and cleared Remington to return to his government post (photo above). The libel suit was settled out of court shortly thereafter, with NBC paying Remington $10,000.
In 1950, the FBI and the federal grand jury in New York City reopened their investigations of Remington and the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) opened a third.
Ann Remington, now divorced from him, was subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury. Initially reluctant, she testified that her husband had been a dues-paying member of the Communist Party, and that he had given secret information to Elizabeth Bentley while knowing that Bentley was a Communist.
The grand jury decided to indict Remington for committing perjury when he denied ever being a member of the Communist Party.
Remington was convicted at trial, but it was revealed that the jury foreman had a personal relationship with Elizabeth Bentley and had agreed to co-author a book with her.
He was found guilty of perjury and sentenced to five years in prison. His conviction was overturned on appeal for “judicial improprieties” and unclear instructions from the judge as to what constituted membership in the Communist Party.
The second Remington trial began in January 1953 and he was quickly convicted of two counts of perjury—specifically for lying when he said he had not given secret information to Elizabeth Bentley and that he did not know of the existence of the Young Communist League, which had a chapter at Dartmouth while Remington was a student there.
He was sentenced to three years in prison. On the morning of Nov. 22, 1954 he was murdered in Lewisburg Penitentiary for his communist association by three inmates—a career criminal named George McCoy, a juvenile offender named Lewis Cagle Jr. and a third man—D.C. resident Carl Parker.
Cagle used a piece of brick in a sock as a weapon, striking Remington four times on the head. Despite McCoy’s repeated remarks about Remington’s communism, the FBI said that robbery was the motive.
When Cagle confessed, the FBI instructed him to describe the crime as if he and McCoy had been trying to rob Remington. When McCoy confessed four days later, he said he hated Remington for being a Communist and denied any robbery motive.
Both men pled guilty and were sentenced to life in prison. Parker received a 20-year term. All three had been in prison for transporting stolen cars across state lines.
Remington’s legacy is that of the third person to die as a result of the Second Red Scare following Julius and Ethel Rosenberg’s execution. When he was killed in prison he was a pitiful figure who had no friends on the left after his betrayal of them and no sympathy on the right for what was regarded as his criminal actions.
For more information and related images, see flic.kr/s/aHsmCQG6iJ
The photographer is unknown. The image is an Associated Press photograph housed in the D.C. Library Washington Star Collection.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan testifies before the Senate Committee on CBP Oversight: Examing the Evolving Challenges Facing the Agency in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2020. CBP photos by Jaime Rodriguez Sr
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan testifies before the Senate Committee on CBP Oversight: Examing the Evolving Challenges Facing the Agency in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2020. CBP photos by Jaime Rodriguez Sr
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”. Seen here is Mr. Peter Mina, Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance, Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Photographer: Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Acting Commissioner Mark A. Morgan testifies before the Senate Committee on CBP Oversight: Examing the Evolving Challenges Facing the Agency in Washington, D.C., June 25, 2020. CBP photos by Jaime Rodriguez Sr
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”. Seen here with Witness Peter Mina, Deputy Officer for Programs and Compliance-OCRCL, U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
Photographer: Donna Burton
Romans 1:20: For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse.
A beautiful Axton sunset. Another moment that took my breath away.
BEST ON BLACK!
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Trade, Executive Assistant Commissioner Brenda Smith testifies before the Senate at the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance regarding "Protecting E-commerce Consumers from Counterfeits" on March 6, 2018. Seen here is Mr. Terrence R. Brady President, Underwriters Laboratories, Inc.
Northbrook , IL.
Photographer: Donna Burton
Governor and Lt. Governor Testify on Veterans Full Employment Act of 2013. by Jay Baker at Annapolis, MD.
Governor and Lt. Governor Testify on Veterans Full Employment Act of 2013. by Jay Baker at Annapolis, MD.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan delivers testimony on immigration policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations, Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner John Wagner testified before the U.S. House of Representatives on the topic “About Face: Examining the Department of Homeland Security’s Use of Facial Recognition and Other Biometric Technologies, Part II”.
Photographer: Donna Burton
Supporters of Dagmar Wilson (foreground), leader of Women’s Strike for Peace, break into applause when she is called to testify before the House Committee on Un American Activities in Washington, D.C. December 13, 1962.
The group struck a chord in the U.S. when thousands of women gathered in Washington earlier in the year to protest against nuclear testing fallout and the lack of a test ban treaty.
President Kennedy responded to that demonstration by saying, “I saw the ladies myself. I recognized why they were here. There were a great number of them. It was in the rain. I understood what they were attempting to say and, therefore, I considered that their message was received.”
HUAC responded by scheduling hearings into alleged communist domination of the Women’s Strike for Peace and held three days of hearings Dec 11-13, 1962.
Of the 11 witnesses called, nine invoked the Fifth Amendment and refused to testify. The final witness, Dagmar Wilson, founder of the group, gave full testimony in front of 500 supporters in the committee hearing room.
When asked if she would purge communists from the organization, she responded “certainly not” and asked if she would make the movement equally open to Nazis and Fascists, she replied, “If only we could get them on our side.”
During the hearing, committee counsel Alfred Nittle asked Wilson if she had orchestrated simultaneous demonstrations in 58 American cities on Nov. 1, 1961. Wilson responded that the spontaneity of the feminine peace movement was “hard to explain to the masculine mind.”
As each of the previous women called to testify refused to answer committee questions, each woman was applauded by the partisan audience. Wilson said at the end of the hearing that, “Solid support of the women for those who took the Fifth [Amendment] is an indication that we are simply not concerned with personal points of view.”
Following the hearing, the women marched to the White House where they picketed with signs reading, “End the Arms Race, Not the Human Race” and “Peace is American.”
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Governor and Lt. Governor Testify on Veterans Full Employment Act of 2013. by Jay Baker at Annapolis, MD.
Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, John Wagner testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee On Border Security and Immigration during a hearing on visa overstays in Washington, D.C., July 12, 2017. U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo by Glenn Fawcett
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations on “A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 24 Budget Request: Investing in U.S. Security, Competitiveness, and the Path Ahead for the U.S.-China Relationship,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2023. [State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy/ Public Domain]
Governor and Lt. Governor Testify on Veterans Full Employment Act of 2013. by Jay Baker at Annapolis, MD.
Governor and Lt. Governor Testify on Veterans Full Employment Act of 2013. by Jay Baker at Annapolis, MD.
John Wagner, Acting Deputy Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations of Customs and Border Protection testifies before the Homeland Security Subcommittee on the issue of international vulnerability related to passport fraud. Photo by James Tourtellotte
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Trade, Executive Assistant Commissioner Brenda Smith testifies before the Senate at the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance regarding "Protecting E-commerce Consumers from Counterfeits" on March 6, 2018. Seen here is Mr. Jim Joholske Director, Office of Import Surveillance, United States Consumer Product Safety Commission
Washington , DC.
Photographer: Donna Burton
Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken, with Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo, testifies before the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations on “A Review of the President’s Fiscal Year 24 Budget Request: Investing in U.S. Security, Competitiveness, and the Path Ahead for the U.S.-China Relationship,” on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2023. [State Department photo by Chuck Kennedy/ Public Domain]
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan delivers testimony on immigration policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2018. Seen here Senator Feinstein directs questions to the Commissioner.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan delivers testimony on immigration policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan delivers testimony on immigration policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan delivers testimony on immigration policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2018. Seen here Senator Durbin directs questions to the Commissioner.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Donna Burton
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Kevin K. McAleenan delivers testimony on immigration policy before the Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled Oversight of U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Washington, D.C., Dec. 11, 2018. U.S. Customs and Border Protection Photo by Donna Burton
Deputy Executive Assistant Commissioner, Office of Field Operations, John Wagner testifies before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee On Border Security and Immigration during a hearing on visa overstays in Washington, D.C., July 12, 2017. U.S. Customs and Border Protection photo by Glenn Fawcett
LEGENDE : Kalehe, province du Sud Kivu, RD Congo, 21 août 2014: Une victime témoignant devant la Cour militaire pendant le procès du lieutenant-colonel Bedi Mobuli Engangela, alias 106, accusé de nombreuses violations des droits de l’homme. Avec l’appui du Bureau conjoint des Nations Unies pour les Droits de l’Homme, des mesures avaient été mises en place pour protéger les témoins et les victimes qui déposaient dans cette affaire emblématique de la lutte contre l’impunité en RDC. Photo MONUSCO/Hanan Talbi
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CAPTION : Kalehe, South Kivu province, DR Congo, 21 Aug. 2014: A victim testifying before the Military Court during the trial of Lt. Colonel Bedi Mobuli Engangela, alias 106, charged with numerous human rights violations. With the support of the Unites Nations Joint Human Rights Office, protection measures were put in place where witnesses and victims testified in this emblematic case in the fight against impunity in the DR Congo. Photo MONUSCO/Hanan Talbi