The exchange of letters has its roots in a week in June almost 50 years ago that ended with Ginger’s hasty departure from Cambridge.
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FBI files that Mrs. Ginger obtained under freedom of information laws paint a detailed picture of the events.
According to the files, on June 14, 1954 Business School officials received an anonymous tip that Ann and Ray Ginger might be called before the Massachusetts Commission to Investigate Communism.
Harvard officials, whose names are deleted from the files, twice called Ginger in to discuss the matter. But Ginger would not answer the critical question posed to him: was he a Communist?
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