Expert Testimony
Alton Ochsner
Ernst Wynder
During the mid-1950s, plaintiffs called Alton Ochsner and Ernst Wynder, notable scientists studying tobacco disease, as expert witnesses. By the later 1960s, retired Surgeon General Luther Terry had also testified for plaintiffs.
Surgeon General Luther Terry
Defendants groomed witnesses chosen and trained by company lawyers; these same experts also appeared on behalf of the cigarette industry at Congressional Committee hearings.