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Appendix E: Historical Notes on the Modern Polygraph
Appendix E: Historical Notes on the Modern Polygraph
Pages 291-297
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In addition, this material provides context for the legal history of polygraph admissibility in courts and shows the link between early polygraph research and the work of the National Research Council. We include it as part of a complete record.
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She also appears in a picture taken in his polygraph laboratory in the 1920s (reproduced in Marston, 1938~. After the United States entered World War I, Marston attempted to interest the Committee on Psychology at the National Research Council (which at the time was acting as the Department of Science and Research of the Council of National Defense)
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At this point, Marston was also completing his law degree at Harvard, and his correspondence with Yerkes focused on seeking employment with the government, first the War Department and then the Department of Justice, in lieu of actual service in the armed forces. Marston appears to have been successful and secured a commission to carry out further work in the Sanitary Corps, where he completed research described initially in an unpublished report dated December 18, 1918, and subsequently published (Marston, 1921~.
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account of his proffered testimony in the Frye case suggests that the circumstances of the case and the original ruling were somewhat different than what this opinion suggests, the Frye test standard stood as the dominant rule regarding the admissibility of scientific expert testimony for the next 70 years. While most courts refused to admit testimony about polygraph evidence over the years, often with reference to Frye, some state and local courts did allow it, and Marston (1938)
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The ad shows Marston analyzing a polygraph tracing while a man is shaving and includes the following text (Saturday Evening Post, October 8, 1938~: Strapped to Lie Detectors, the same scientific instruments used by Gmen and police officers throughout the country, hundreds of men take part in an astounding series of tests that blast false claims and reveal the naked truth about razor blades. These men, shaving under the piercing eye of Dr.
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describes Keeler's initiation of polygraph testing at the Oak Ridge nuclear facility beginning in 1946: There he interrogated all 690 employees of the Atomic Energy Commission subcontractor, Carbide and Carbon Chemical Co. These executives, scientists, engineers, skilled and unskilled laborers were asked to submit voluntarily to testing upon hiring, on a routine basis during employment, and upon termination.
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Bunn, G.C. 1997 The lie detector, Wonder Woman and liberty: The life and works of William Moulton Marston.
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