The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Priscilla Johnson McMillan,

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The true story of the government conspiracy to bring down J. Robert Oppenheimer, America's most famous scientist.

On April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was facing charges of violating national security. Could the director of the Manhattan Project, the visionary who led the…

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Priscilla was an inveterate Oppie scholar, and an amazing journalist/historian. She was the first female wire service reporter in Moscow during the Cold War and probably the only person in history to interview—and get to know—both Lee Harvey Oswald and President John Kennedy.

A historian colleague believes that she was a CIA spy. I doubt that. But, if Priscilla had been a spy, she was a damn fine one.

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