ABSTRACT
caltech instructor arrested: charged with denying communist party ties read a headline on the front page of the Pasadena Star News toward the end of my stay in Pasadena. The story reported that the FBI had arrested one of our own crowd, Sidney Weinbaum, a theoretical physicist working as a research fellow for Linus Pauling in the Caltech chemistry division. The government charged him with perjury and fraud for having falsely denied under oath his past membership in the Communist Party.
