#HUAC

[victusinveritas]

If you want to read more about Seeger and HUAC.

[muddypolitics]

Ronald Reagan, an FBI informant, testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee against other his fellow actors. 1947

He wasn't JUST the worst president ever (maybe 2nd worst after trump?)...he was also a horrible human being that ruined people's lives when he was still an actor.

[oeuvrinarydurian]

Nobody rocks a sweater vest like this man.

Please note he continues the tradition of drinking in character.

[davidhudson]

Dashiell Hammett, May 27, 1894 – January 10, 1961.

Being sworn in by Senator Joseph McCarthy just before refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee on March 26, 1953. Photo by Hank Walker.

[citizenscreen]

The “Hollywood Ten″ were cited for contempt of Congress #OnThisDay in 1947.

These men had refused to cooperate at hearings dealing with communism in the movie industry held by the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). They were sentenced to one year in jail.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

From the shoulders of cheering, singing supporters, Dalton Trumbo and John Howard Lawson make farewell speeches as they prepare to leave Penn Station for Washington, where they were to start serving one-year prison terms for contempt of Congress, June 9, 1950. The "Hollywood 10" had appeared before the House Un-American Affairs Committee in October, 1947, and refused to answer questions regarding their possible affiliations with the Communist Party. After they were released, they were blacklisted by the Hollywood studios.

Photo: Marty Lederhandler for the AP

[todaysdocument]

Minutes of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, August 6, 1964

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of RepresentativesSeries: Committee PapersFile Unit: Minutes of Full Committee and Subcommittee Meetings of the Internal Security Committee During the 80th through 93rd Congresses

COMMITTEE ON UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

August 6, 1964

The Committee on Un-American Activities met in executive session on August 6, 1964, in Room 225 of the Cannon House Office Building at 3:30 o'clock p.m. The following members of the Committee were present:

Edwin E. Willis, Chairman August E. Johansen

Joe R. Pool Henry C. Schadeberg

Donald C. Bruce

The staff members present included Francis J. McNamara, director; Frank S. Tavenner, Jr., general counsel; Alfred M. Nittle, counsel; Donald T. Appell, chief investigator; and Juliette P. Joray recording clerk.

The meeting was called to order by the chairman at 3:30 o'clock p.m.

The Committee considered the release of the testimony of Dr. James H. Robinson who appeared before the Committee in executive session on May 5, 1964. There being no objection it was so ordered.

Mr. Pool, chairman of the subcommittee holding hearings in the matter of Entry of Aliens in the United States under waiver of ineligibility (specifically, the Yasui case), again reported to the full committee the receipt of a request from Secretary of State Dean Rusk that he be permitted to testify and after a full discussion, a motion was made by Mr. Johansen, seconded by Mr. Bruce, and carried unanimously, that the subcommittee accept the Secretary's invitation to testify.

The meeting adjourned at 3:55 o'clock p.m.

E. E. Willis

Chairman

Juliette P. Joray

Recording Clerk

[sweepinggeneral]

i still cant get over the fact hua cheng bullies his own sword...

[commiepinkofag]

The Red Scare

Newly Declassified National Security Agency Memo Reveals That U.S. Government Knew Ethel Rosenberg Was Not A Spy Long Before Her Trial and Execution

A newly declassified document clarifies the truth. In August 2024, the Rosenberg sons obtained a handwritten memo from August 1950 authored by the NSA’s chief analyst, Meredith Gardner. He wrote that, based on Soviet intelligence, Ethel knew about Julius’ espionage work but “due to illness she did not engage in the work herself.” This document confirms what other sources such as the FBI had already indicated: Ethel was not a spy and “did not engage in the work” of espionage and – most importantly – U.S. government officials knew it. They knew it when FBI agents arrested Ethel on Aug. 11, 1950. They knew it when the jury convicted her nine months later. They knew it when the judge sentenced her to death on April 5, 1951. And they knew it when prison officials executed her on Friday, June 19, 1953. Now, Michael and Robert Meeropol are using the declassified memo to urge Biden “to exonerate (Ethel) Rosenberg by issuing a formal presidential proclamation saying that she was wrongly convicted and executed.

[gael-garcia]

Hollywood on Trial (1976, David Helpern)

The film chronicles the 1947 hearings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), with a focus on the Hollywood Ten directors, screenwriters and producers cited for contempt of Congress and blacklisted by the movie industry after refusing to answer questions about their alleged involvement with the Communist Party.

[oldshowbiz]

1957.

US House of Representatives cites playwright Arthur Miller for contempt.

[dick-nixon]

alger hiss huac hearing, 1948

[racefortheironthrone]

How true, or untrue were the communist accusation Walt leveled at his employee's?

Pretty much entirely bullshit.

While there were Communist organizers in the labor movement in the 1940s, they were in CIO unions like the UE (electrical workers), ILWU (longshoremen on the West Coast), Mine Mill, and the like.

The Screen Cartoonist's Guild was affiliated with the AFL, the more politically moderate union federation, and was a thoroughly conventional Hollywood union. If you look at the issues that were at stake in the 1941 strike, they were bread-and-butter stuff rather than anything ideological: they wanted union recognition, they wanted an end to wildly disparate pay rates, they wanted an end to unpaid overtime, they wanted on-screen credits, and they wanted an end to firing workers for union activity.

[citizenscreen]

The first systematic Hollywood blacklist was instituted on November 25, 1947, the day after ten writers and directors were cited for contempt of Congress for refusing to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). The blacklist denied employment to entertainment professionals due to alleged Communist ties or sympathies.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

A youthful Joseph Papp at the box office of the Broadway play Comes a Day, for which he was production stage manager. The picture was taken on November 12, 1958, the day he learned that an arbitrator had ruled in his favor in his complaint against CBS. The network had fired him after he refused to answer questions of a congressional committee probing "un-American activities," i.e., Communism. The arbitrator ordered CBS to re-hire him and pay him $1,500 in back wages (around $16,000 in today's dollars).

Photo: John Lindsay for the AP

[todaysdocument]

The House Un-American Activities Committee discuss subpoenaing Cyrus Eaton, a businessman who criticized U.S. Cold War policy and called for nuclear disarmament, June 13, 1958. 

Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives

Series: Committee Papers

File Unit: Minutes of Full Committee and Subcommittee Meetings of the Internal Security Committee During the 80th through 93rd Congresses

Transcription: 

GORDON H. SCHERER                                                                         COMMITTEES:

FIRST DISTRICT, OHIO                                                                          UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES

                                                                                                                  PUBLIC WORKS

CINCINNATI OFFICE:

1704 CAREW TOWER                                                                            ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT

DUnbar 1-9312                                                                                         ELIZABETH M. SCHURENT

[[in calligraphy]]  Congress of the United States

House of Representatives

Washington, D.C.

June 13, 1958

[[blue ink]] Honorable Francis E. Walter, Chairman

Committee on Un-American Activities

House Office Building

Washington 25, D.C.

Dear Mr. Chairman:

On May 7, following the much - discussed television

appearance of Mr. Cyrus Eaton on the Mike Wallace show, I

made a speech at Hunter College in New York City in which I

commented on Mr. Eaton's charges against the security agencies

of this country. Enclosed is a copy of that part of the speech

dealing with the Eaton matter which I inserted in the Congressional

Record on May 12, entitled "Aid and Comfort to the Enemy."

Subsequently on May 15 I wrote you, sending

copies to the other members of the  Committee

on Un-American Activities,

stating that in my opinion the Committee had no alternative except

to call Mr. Eaton and ask him to tell us what information he had

to support his charges against the security agencies of this

country, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

   It has been pointed out that Mr. Eaton had a perfect right

under our Constitution to make whatever attack he saw fit against

these agencies even though because of his prominence such charges

were used by the Communist propaganda apparatus all over the

world to the detriment of the United States. It has been made

clear that, if there is any basis for Mr. Eaton's charges, then

our Committee has the duty under its charter and under the rules

of the House to investigate the operation of any agency in the

executive branch which would be operating in the manner suggested by

Mr. Eaton, and , if his charges were sustained by the evidence, to

recommend to the House the necessary legislation to correct such

practices.

[page 2]

Honorable Francis E. Walter

Page 2 - June 13, 1958

While, as I stated, Mr. Easton has the right to say what he pleases, the Congress and its Committees, also have the right to let the people who have been influenced by his statements know the facts, whatever they might be. Mr. Eaton should also have the opportunity to explain to the American people if there is any relation between the charges he has made against the agencies of this government and his frequent and intimate associations with the very top officials of the Russian government.

The charter of our Committee charges us with investigating propaganda harmful to the United States. The Congress and the people are entitled to know whether or not Mr. Eaton's Communist associates are furnishing him with any information on which he bases his charges against agencies of the government of the United States.

There is no question in my mind that Mr. Easton is a loyal American; however, you and I, as the result of our experience on this Committee, know full well that one of the successful techniques of the Communist apparatus is to use, whenever it can, prominent but often misguided loyal Americans to help promote Russian policy. This, as you know, has happened time and time again, as disclosed by an over-abundance of evidence in the record of our hearings.

Nothing that happened at the meeting in my office on Wednesday, June 11, has caused me to change my mind one iota about the necessity of calling Mr. Eaton, particularly since he saw fit to have dinner at the Russian Embassy the following night. This meeting with the Russian Ambassador was apparently more satisfactory and amiable than the one the preceding day with the representatives of the Congress.

I respectfully recommend that you call a meeting of the Committee at the earliest possible time so that a time and place can be set for Mr. Eaton's appearance.

Sincerely yours,

Gordon H. Scherer

GHS:ems