Abraham Chasanow

Abraham Chasanow (December 1, 1910 – June 11, 1989) was suspended from the U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office as a security risk in July 1953, during the period of McCarthyism in the United States, in part for activities related to the founding of the cooperative Greenbelt Veteran Housing Corporation at his home in Greenbelt, Maryland. During highly publicized hearings, the Navy did not produce evidence to support the charge and his accusers were never identified. Chasanow was cleared of all charges thirteen months later. In 1954, Assistant Secretary of the Navy (AIR) James H. Smith, Jr. issued a formal apology to Chasanow.

In 1955 investigative reporter Anthony Lewis won the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting for a series of articles describing the Chasanow case. The case was also the subject of a 1957 movie Three Brave Men starring Ray Milland and Ernest Borgnine.^[1][2]

References

1. ^ Internet Movie Database: "Three Brave Men (1956)', accessed May 15, 2011
2. ^ Bosley, Crowther (Mar 16). "Movie Review: Three Brave Men (1957)". The New York Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9E03EEDA1639E33BBC4E52DFB566838C649EDE. 

Sources

• Broadwater, Jeff (1992). Eisenhower & the Anti-Communist Crusade. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 0-8078-2015-6. 
• "The Greenbelt Mystery". Time. 1954, May 10. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,819817,00.html?iid=chix-sphere. 
• "Sequels: Sunup'". Time. 1954, September 13. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,820150,00.html. 
• Knepper, Cathy D. (2001). Greenbelt, Maryland: A Living Legacy of the New Deal (Creating the North American Landscape). Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-6490-9. 
• Lewis, Anthony (June 15). "ABROAD AT HOME; Time of the Assassins". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE4DF133BF936A25755C0A96F948260. 
• "Obituaries: Abraham Chasanow, 78, an Aide Vindicated in Navy Security Case". Time. 1989, Jun 14. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE5DD1339F937A25755C0A96F948260. 
• Robb, David L. (2004). Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movie. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. ISBN 1-59102-182-0. 
• Shrecker, Ellen (1998). Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-77470-7. 

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Name	Chasanow, Abraham
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Date of birth	December 1, 1910
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Date of death	June 11, 1989
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