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<blockquote><blockquote>"We conclude that upon production of the documents demanded by respondent, the Communist party's charge that Markward gave perjurious testimony was not sustained. Consequently, Mrs. Markward's testimony is in no way impaired by the Annie Lee Moss matter."<ref>Subversive Activities Control Board, Docket No. 51-101, William P. Rogers, Attorney General of the U.S. v. The Communist Party of the U.S., recommended decision on second remand, September 19, 1958, p. 5</ref></blockquote></blockquote>

<blockquote><blockquote>"We conclude that upon production of the documents demanded by respondent, the Communist party's charge that Markward gave perjurious testimony was not sustained. Consequently, Mrs. Markward's testimony is in no way impaired by the Annie Lee Moss matter."<ref>Subversive Activities Control Board, Docket No. 51-101, William P. Rogers, Attorney General of the U.S. v. The Communist Party of the U.S., recommended decision on second remand, September 19, 1958, p. 5</ref></blockquote></blockquote>

*In the landmark [[United States Supreme Court]] decision of ''Communist Party of the United States v. Subversive Activities Control Board'', 367 U.S. 1, 86 (1961)<ref>[http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0367_0001_ZO.html Communist Party of the United States v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 367 U.S. 1, 86 (1961)]</ref>, Justice [[Felix Frankfurter]] (who had been a mentor of and character witness for [[Alger Hiss]]) , writing for the majority, noted in response to allegations by the Communist Party that Markward had committed perjury, “On December 18, 1956, the [Subversive Activities Control] Board issued its 240-page Modified Report. It found that Mrs. Markward was a credible witness....” |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=August 6, 1954 |accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref>

*In the landmark [[United States Supreme Court]] decision of ''Communist Party of the United States v. Subversive Activities Control Board'', 367 U.S. 1, 86 (1961)<ref>[http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0367_0001_ZO.html Communist Party of the United States v. Subversive Activities Control Board, 367 U.S. 1, 86 (1961)]</ref>, Justice [[Felix Frankfurter]] (who had been a mentor of and character witness for [[Alger Hiss]]) , writing for the majority, noted in response to allegations by the Communist Party that Markward had committed perjury, “On December 18, 1956, the [Subversive Activities Control] Board issued its 240-page Modified Report. It found that Mrs. Markward was a credible witness....”  

 

*The [[US Army]] charged Moss with being card number 37269 in the [[American Communist Party]], saying she was issued the card in 1943.<ref>{{cite news |first= |last= |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=Mrs. Moss Is Accused As Card-Carrying Red. |url= |quote=[[Washington, DC]], August 5, 1954 ([[Associated Press]]) A report that Annie Lee Moss was given a Communist party membership book for 1943 resulted in her suspension for a second time from her job with the [[Army Signal Corps]]. |publisher=[[New York Times]] |date=August 6, 1954 |accessdate=2007-09-25}}</ref>

*Andrea Friedman, associate professor of history and of women and gender studies at Washington University in St. Louis, reported "substantial, if contested, evidence possessed by the U.S. government of her [Moss's] involvement in the [Communist] party. That evidence&mdash;consisting of perhaps a dozen pieces of paper&mdash;included a list of “party recruits” that identified Moss by name, race, age, and occupation; membership lists from two Communist party branches, the [[Communist Political Association]], and various ad hoc committees containing Moss’s name and address, as well as the number of her CP [Communist Party] membership book; and receipt records from 1945 for ''Daily Worker'' subscriptions that included Moss’s name and amounts paid."<ref>{{Citation|first=Andrea |last=Friedman |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Race, Gender, and McCarthyism |url=http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.2/friedman.html                        |quote=Annie Lee Moss is hardly a household name. She had her fifteen minutes (or so) of fame in March 1954, when Edward R. Murrow dedicated an episode of his television news show, See It Now, to her appearance before Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. McCarthy had charged that Moss, an African American civilian Pentagon employee who allegedly had access to top-secret coded messages, was a card-carrying member of the Communist party (CP). Murrow's broadcast went a long way toward discrediting those claims; ultimately, Moss remained an army clerk, laboring in obscurity until her retirement in 1975, at age sixty-nine. When she reappeared in George Clooney's 2005 paean to Murrow, Good Night, and Good Luck, she had been long forgotten by all but a coterie of McCarthy scholars and right-wing apologists for McCarthyism. |publisher=[[The Journal of American History]] |date= |accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref>

*Andrea Friedman, associate professor of history and of women and gender studies at Washington University in St. Louis, reported "substantial, if contested, evidence possessed by the U.S. government of her [Moss's] involvement in the [Communist] party. That evidence&mdash;consisting of perhaps a dozen pieces of paper&mdash;included a list of “party recruits” that identified Moss by name, race, age, and occupation; membership lists from two Communist party branches, the [[Communist Political Association]], and various ad hoc committees containing Moss’s name and address, as well as the number of her CP [Communist Party] membership book; and receipt records from 1945 for ''Daily Worker'' subscriptions that included Moss’s name and amounts paid."<ref>{{Citation|first=Andrea |last=Friedman |authorlink= |coauthors= |title=The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Race, Gender, and McCarthyism |url=http://www.historycooperative.org/cgi-bin/justtop.cgi?act=justtop&url=http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/jah/94.2/friedman.html                        |quote=Annie Lee Moss is hardly a household name. She had her fifteen minutes (or so) of fame in March 1954, when Edward R. Murrow dedicated an episode of his television news show, See It Now, to her appearance before Sen. Joseph McCarthy's Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. McCarthy had charged that Moss, an African American civilian Pentagon employee who allegedly had access to top-secret coded messages, was a card-carrying member of the Communist party (CP). Murrow's broadcast went a long way toward discrediting those claims; ultimately, Moss remained an army clerk, laboring in obscurity until her retirement in 1975, at age sixty-nine. When she reappeared in George Clooney's 2005 paean to Murrow, Good Night, and Good Luck, she had been long forgotten by all but a coterie of McCarthy scholars and right-wing apologists for McCarthyism. |publisher=[[The Journal of American History]] |date= |accessdate=2007-09-25 }}</ref>