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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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In a U.S. Army court at Fort Lewis, former POW Lt. Jefferson D. Erwin testified in defense of Lt. Col. Paul V. Liles, charged with collaborating with North Korean captors. Erwin advocated using Chinese and North Korean Communists as guinea pigs for A-bomb tests, stating it would not be an atrocity.
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FORT LEWIS, (P) A former prisoner of war, in an emotional outburst on the witness stand, Friday advocated that North Korean and Chinese Communists be used as human guinea pigs in atom bomb tests.
Lt. Jefferson D. Erwin, called as a defense witness in the collaboration trial of Lt. Col. Paul V. Liles, told an Army court he would not consider it an atrocity.
Erwin, who was acquitted of collaboration charges here last August, said: "I think it would be a good thing. Kill them all."
Liles is charged with collaborating with his Communist captors in North Korea and refusing to take command of American POWs at a camp in which he was the senior American officer.
Two other witnesses called to the stand in defense of Liles testified the Communists instructed prisoners to disregard military rank and to take orders only from leaders appointed by the Communists.
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North Korea
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Friday
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Lt. Jefferson D. Erwin, a former POW acquitted of collaboration charges last August, testified as a defense witness in the collaboration trial of Lt. Col. Paul V. Liles at an Army court in Fort Lewis. In an emotional outburst, Erwin advocated using North Korean and Chinese Communists as human guinea pigs in atom bomb tests, stating he would not consider it an atrocity and 'Kill them all.' Liles is charged with collaborating with Communist captors in North Korea and refusing command of American POWs. Two other defense witnesses testified that Communists instructed prisoners to disregard military rank and follow only Communist-appointed leaders.