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Oppenheimer was played by Sam Waterston in a 1980 BBC miniseries that culminated in the security hearing. The series was broadcast in the U.S. in 1982. [146] In 2009, David Strathairn starred as Oppenheimer in the American Experience PBS anthology series documentary, The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer, centering around the security hearing.
The holding, as delivered by Justice Holmes: . The quashing of a bad indictment is no bar to a prosecution upon a good one, but a judgment for the defendant upon the ground that the prosecution is barred goes to his liability as matter of substantive law and one judgment that he is free as matter of substantive law is as good as another.
The Oppenheimer case has often been viewed as a modern tragedy. [83] [84] [76] [85] Borden is considered one of the tragic figures within it, albeit all due to his own actions. [86] [85] [87] Borden's career was affected as a result of his role in the Oppenheimer matter, especially once the role his letter played became public knowledge in June ...
Ray Monk’s biography of Oppenheimer, A Life Inside the Center, also includes a description of the alleged attempted poisoning.“In what looks like an attempt to murder his tutor, or at the very ...
A biographer of Robert Oppenheimer explains how he uncovered the likely truth about his membership in a secret communist unit.
Oppenheimer biographers Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin state that Strauss's decision to publish the transcript of the Oppenheimer security hearing even though witnesses had been promised their testimony would remain secret, rebounded against him in the long run, as the transcript showed how the hearing had taken the form of an inquisition. [261]
It shows Oppenheimer grappling with the power of his deadly invention, and culminates by depicting the controversial 1954 hearing where Oppenheimer, accused of having communist sympathies, was ...
Pavel Sudoplatov claimed to have led the efforts to obtain information about the Manhattan Project [28] in an alleged "Department S" but this has been questioned because Sudoplatov placed false accusations on Oppenheimer and others. [29]