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"A Damaging Impression of Hollywood Has Spread"
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Movie "Czar" Eric Johnston testifies before HUAC.
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"Damage"
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Contemporary assessment by Collier's magazine of the Army-McCarthy hearings.
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"Enemies from Within"
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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and President Harry S. Truman trade accusations of disloyalty.
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"Have You No Sense of Decency": The Army-McCarthy Hearings
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Transcript of the session that led to Senator McCarthy's downfall.
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"I Cannot and Will Not Cut My Conscience to Fit This Year's Fashions"
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Text of Lillian Hellman' s letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee refusing to name names.
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"I Have Sung in Hobo Jungles, and I Have Sung for the Rockefellers"
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Testimony of Pete Seeger to HUAC.
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"National Suicide"
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Text of a statement by Margaret Chase Smith and six Republican Senators against Joseph McCarthy's attack on "individual freedom".
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"Not Only Ridiculous, but Dangerous"
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Collier's objects to Joseph McCarthy's attacks on the press.
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"The World Was at Stake": Three "Friendly" HUAC Hollywood Witnesses Assess Pro-Soviet Wartime Films
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Jack Warner, Ayn Rand and Louis B. Mayer testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee.
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"They Want to Muzzle Public Opinion":
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Testimony of John Howard Lawson before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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"We Must Keep the Labor Unions Clean"
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Ronald Reagan and Walt Disney testify before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee blaming Hollywood labor conflicts on Communist Infiltration.
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"You Are the Un-Americans, and You Ought to be Ashamed of Yourselves"
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Testimony of Paul Robeson before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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Ayn Rand's HUAC Testimony
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Libertarian author cooperates with Congressional investigation of Communist propaganda in American films. Includes introduction, background, and notes.
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Communists Are Second to None in Our Devotion to Our People and to Our Country
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Prosecution and defense statements from the 1949 trial of American Communist Party leaders.
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HUAC and Censorship Changes
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Article documenting HUAC's role in the blacklisting of suspected Communists in Hollywood and its attempts to influence the content of films produced in the late 1940s and 1950s.
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HUAC, McCarthy, and the Reds - McCarthyism and the Blacklist
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A brief, illustrated timeline of Joe McCarthy's life and the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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McCarran Internal Security Act
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Partial text of a law "[t]o protect the United States against certain Un American and subversive activities by requiring registration of Communist organizations."
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Online NewsHour: Hollywood Blacklisting
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Excerpts from the PBS documentary "The Legacy of the Hollywood Blacklist."
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Red Channels - The Blacklist
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Excerpts from Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television (1950).
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The Hollywood Ten
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Short biographies of the individuals who refused to testify in HUAC's hearings, thereby earning a place on the blacklist.
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The Joseph McCarthy Fan Club
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Mocks the late anti-Communist. Includes an online discussion group.
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The New American: McCarthyism
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Forty questions and answers about Senator Joseph McCarthy.
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Hollywood Blacklist
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Article by Dan Georgakas from the Encyclopedia of the American Left documenting the persecution of suspected Communists in the entertainment industry.
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McCarthyism and the Movies
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A listing and description by theme, biographical and documentary with a forum.
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The Fight For America: Senator Joseph McCarthy
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Essay by Jesse Friedman tracing the life and career of anti-Communist Senator Joseph McCarthy. Asserts he was a "sleazy bully" who "ruined the careers of hundreds of innocent men and women [in order] to advance his own."
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