Alumni News Video: Penn Kimball '37

By Princeton Alumni Weekly

Published online February 5, 2014

Watch Kimball discuss his 1983 book, The File

This video is in a format no longer supported by PAW Online. To view the video, visit The File and McCarthyism: A Personal Odyssey

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