wkp@lanl.ARPA (02/11/85)
In article <279@ihu1m.UUCP> Ken Perlow writes: >For the record, J Robert Oppenheimer was *NEVER* a member of >the Communist Party. Neither was his wife Kitty. Kitty's >first husband, Joe Dallett, *was* a member of the Communist >Party, in fact, he was the first Commissar of the Spanish >Republic's Abraham Lincoln Brigade. He died fighting fascism >at Jarama. All this information is completely true, and I know it >because Kitty was my cousin. Oppenheimer's alleged communism >was a vicious lie perpetrated by that scum crypto-Nazi, the real >"Dr. Strangelove", Edward Teller, in his lust for power in the >post WW II scientific community. Ken Perlow is partly correct. J Robert Oppenheimer was never a member of the communist party, though he went to many of their meetings (where, by the way, he met Kitty). His brother Frank (zichrono l'vracha -- he just died a few days ago) *WAS* a member of the communist party, and it was this that I was thinking of in my posting. I am also no fan of Teller but accusing Oppie of being a communist was never done by Teller. This was also pointed out by Ken Arnold. Oppie was a communist sympathizer in the 1930's, and this was substantiated by many people, but Teller was not one of them. Hope this clears up the situation. --- bill peter {ihnp4,seismo}!cmcl2!lanl!wkp "Ben Azzai said, 'Do not be scornful of any person and do not be disdainful of anything, for there is no person without his hour and no thing without its place.'" ---