Tag Archives: House Un-American Activities Committee

Slate Magazine: Karina Longworth: ‘The Hollywood Ten Paid The Price For Refusing to Answer The $64 Question’

Source:The Daily Review  “The hearings on what the House Un-American Activities Committee called “the communist infiltration of the motion-picture industry” began on Oct. 20, 1947. At the insistence of lawyers representing the 19 “unfriendly” witnesses brought before the committee, the … Continue reading

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The Hollywood Reporter: Victims of Hollywood’s Blacklist

. Source:The New Democrat I don’t think there’s anything more Un-American and Un-liberal democratic as punishing people simply because of what they believe and their politics. But that is what the U.S. House of Representatives decided to do in 1946-47 … Continue reading

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Matthew Hormann: The Hollywood Ten -1 950

. Source:The New Democrat I don’t want to sound overly partisan here, but this was one of the ugliest anti-American, anti-liberal democratic, illiberal periods in American history. Where Americans were judged by who they associated with and political causes they … Continue reading

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Jnuss Bau: The Hollywood Blacklist: 1947-1960

. Source:The New Democrat The late 1940s and all the way up to at least the mid-1950s or so was one of the most fascist illiberal and anti-liberal democratic periods of our time. I think elements of today’s Tea Party … Continue reading

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Radical Films: U.S. House Un-American Activities

. Source:The New Democrat  The House Un-American Activities Committee and then later the Joe McCarthy Government Oversight Committee in the Senate were classic cases of guilt by association. Because they assumed some Americans were Un-American and not deserving of being … Continue reading

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