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2178 COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT TESTIMONY OF WILLIAM OBRINSKY, ACCOMPANIED BY COUNSEL, PAUL L. ROSS Mr. NiTTLE. Would you state your full name and residence for the record, please? Dr. Obrinsky. My name is Dr. William Obrinsky. I reside at No. 1 Emerson Drive, Staten Island, N.Y. Mr. NiTTLE. Ai'e you represented by comisel? Dr. Obrinsky. I am. My counsel is to my right. Mr. NiTTLE. Would counsel please identify himself for the record, stating his name and office address. Mr. Ross. Paul L. Ross, R-o-s-s, 635 Madison Avenue, New- York, N.Y. Mr. NiTTLE. Would you state whether or not you were formerly a resident of New Orleans, La.? Dr. Obrinsky. Sir, I respectfully decline to answ^er this question because I am a practicing physician, and to a physician the sacredness of human life is a direct and early and on-going experience, and it is no less sacred when millions of lives, not one, are at stake Mr. NiTTLE. Just a minute Dr. Obrinsky. —and I am invoking my rights under the first amendment and my privileges mider the fifth. Mr. Doyle. Doctor, I instruct you to answer the question. This question is clearly pertinent and relevant. It is a matter of identification. The Supreme Court has ruled time and again that this committee is entitled to know the identification of any witness appearing before it. Dr. Obrinsky. May I consult wdth counsel? Mr. Doyle. Yes, sir. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Dr. Obrinsky. I insist on the answer I have just given. Mr. NiTTLE. Would you state the date and place of your birth? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Dr. Obrinsky. May I ask how this is pertinent to this investigation of peace? Mr. Doyle. I will answer it. It is a matter of identification. It is clearly pertinent and clearly relevant. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Dr. Obrinsky. I decline to answer the question on the same grounds. Mr. Doyle. I instruct you to answer that question. Dr. Obrinsky. My same answer holds. Mr. NiTTLE. When you refer to the fifth amendment as a basis for your refusal to respond to the question, are you invoking the selfincrimination clause of that amendment? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Dr. Obrinsky. I invoke the fifth amendment in all its parts. Mr. NiTTLE. Would you relate the extent of your formal education? Dr. Obrinsky. May I ask how this is pertinent, sir? Mr. Doyle. For the same reason that I gave you in your other two refusals to answer, a matter of identification. (Witness conferred with counsel.) Dr. Obrinsky. I respectfully decline to answer the question on the grounds previously stated.
COMMUNIST ACTIVITIES IN THE PEACE MOVEMENT 2179 Mr. NiTTLE. Dr. Obrinsky, did you in the early part of 1961 organize the Staten Island Community Peace Group? Dr. Obrinsky. Sir, I decline to answer that question on the previously stated grounds. Mr. NiTTLE. Did you not in March of 1961 issue press releases on behalf of this group, the contents of which were published in the Staten Island Advance, a daily newspaper circulated in your area? Dr. Obrinsky. I decline, sir, to answer on the previously stated grounds. Mr. NiTTLE. I now hand you two news items, marked for identification as Obrinsky Exhibit No. 1, which appeared, respectively, on March 6 and March 15, 1961, in the Staten Island Advance. You will note that the former item reports that the Staten Island Community Peace Group met the previous evening in the Unitarian Church hall, New Brighton, and planned a theater party for April 12 in the Empire Theater at which the film "Grand Illusion," described in the newspaper account as an anti-war film, would be shown. It was also reported that your group announced circulation of a petition, allegedly drafted by Linus Pauling, protesting the spread of nuclear weapons. The latter item repeats the announcement of the sponsoring by your group of a showing of an anti-war film titled "Grand Illusion" and carries the announcement that your "peace group" is also circulating a petition which will be presented at the Oslo meeting of the NATO powers April 15, That petition seeks to avert an expansion of the nuclear power to the member nations of NATO. Did you prepare the press releases and make this information available to the press on behalf of the Staten Island Community Peace Group? (Witness conferred with counsel.) Dr. Obrinsky. Sir, I repeat that I invoke my rights under the first and my privilege under the fifth. (Documents marked "Obrinsky Exhibit No. 1" and retained in committee files.) Mr. NiTTLE. Would you tell us please whether offices are maintained by the Staten Island Community Peace Group? Dr. Obrinsky. I decline to answer on the same grounds, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Where are these offices located? Dr. Obrinsky. I still decline to answer, sir, same answer. Mr. NiTTLE. Are the offices located or maintained in your residence or place of business? Dr. Obrinsky. The same answer, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. I assume that your group is still in existence. Is it? Dr. Obrinsky. The same answer, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Would you tell the committee the number of persons who comprise its membership in addition to yourself? Dr. Obrinsky. I am afraid I must give you the same answer, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. Dr. Obrinsky, were you not formerly the chairman of the Staten Island Committee in the Greater New York area of the National Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy? Dr. Obrinsky. Same answer, sir. Mr. NiTTLE. During what period of time have you served as chairman of the Staten Island Committee of SANE? Dr. Obrinsky, The same answer, sir.
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