The House Un American Activities Committee
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The House Un American Activities Committee
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher: CreateSpace
Release Date : 2015-08-05
The House Un American Activities Committee written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by CreateSpace this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-05 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Profiles the Alger Hiss case before Committee *Includes testimony from various Hollywood actors before the Committee *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents "I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!" - Harry Truman, 1960 In 1947, at the start of the Cold War, President Truman tried to assure Americans who were worried about Communists in government that he was "not worried about the Communist Party taking over the Government of the United States, but I am against a person, whose loyalty is not to the Government of the United States, holding a Government job. They are entirely different things. I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that." Nonetheless, shortly after World War II, Congress' House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) began investigating Americans across the country for suspected ties to Communism. The most famous victims of these witch hunts were Hollywood actors, such as Charlie Chaplin, whose "Un-American activity" was being neutral at the beginning of World War II, but at the beginning of the Cold War, many Americans had the Red Scare. In a similar vein, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy would make waves in 1950 by telling the Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia that he had a list of dozens of known Communists working in the State Department. Among the people called before HUAC, perhaps none are as controversial as Alger Hiss. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law, after which he worked as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, worked in the Roosevelt administration for the Agricultural Adjustment Association, and was Head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. That background didn't exactly sound like one held by a Soviet spy, let alone a Communist, but Elizabeth Bentley, a former Communist, notified the Committee about a suspected spy ring and named several names, including Hiss. More notably, Hiss was also accused of being a Communist and Soviet spy by an admitted Communist, Whittaker Chambers. With the Communist threat at the fore during the early '50s, HUAC became one of the most influential governmental bodies in America, but when McCarthyism was discredited during the McCarthy-Army hearings in the middle of the decade, the anti-Communist crusaders fell into disrepute. In 1969, Thomas Geogheghan wrote in the Harvard Crimson, "In the fifties, the most effective sanction was terror. Almost any publicity from HUAC meant the 'blacklist.' Without a chance to clear his name, a witness would suddenly find himself without friends and without a job. But it is not easy to see how in 1969 a HUAC blacklist could terrorize an SDS activist. Witnesses like Jerry Rubin have openly boasted of their contempt for American institutions. A subpoena from HUAC would be unlikely to scandalize Abbie Hoffman or his friends." As Geogheghan's assertions suggest, HUAC was well in decline by the time the '60s dawned, a fact so obvious that HUAC actually tried to restore its reputation by changing its name to the Internal Security Committee in 1969. Nevertheless, a few years later, the committee's authority was rolled into the House Judiciary Committee's, bringing to an end one of Congress' most controversial chapters. The House Un-American Activities Committee: The History and Legacy of Congress' Most Notorious Investigative Committee chronicles the origins of the Committee and its work during World War II and the Cold War. Along with pictures of important people, places, and events, you will learn about HUAC like never before.
This Is Your House Committee On Un American Activities
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1954
This Is Your House Committee On Un American Activities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1954 with Communism categories.
The Committee
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Author : Walter Goodman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1968
The Committee written by Walter Goodman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Civil rights categories.
A history of the committee from its origins in the Palmer Raids of the 1920's, through the rise of Communist and Fascist groups in the 1930's, culminating in the McCarthyism of the 1950's, and continuing into the investigations of civil rights and peace organizations of the 1960's. Includes photos of major figures.
The House Committee On Un American Activities
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1958
The House Committee On Un American Activities written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1958 with Communism categories.
Investigation Of Communist Activities In The Newark N J Area
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955
Investigation Of Communist Activities In The Newark N J Area written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Communism categories.
Thirty Years Of Treason
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
language : en
Publisher: Nation Books
Release Date : 2002
Thirty Years Of Treason written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and has been published by Nation Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
The testimony that the author has gleaned for this book from the thirty-year record of the House Un-American Activities Committee focuses on HUAC's treatment of artists, intellectuals, and performers. This highly readable and absorbing collection of significant excerpts from the hearings shows with painful clarity how HUAC grew from a panel that investigated possible subversive activities in a "dignified" manner to a huge, unrelenting accusatory finger from which almost no one was safe. This book serves as a warning for the future and creates living history from the documentary record. "The basic document with which all future studies of the [House Un-American Activities] Committee will have to begin." —Dalton Trumbo "...what he has done is give us HUAC as spectacle, and the perspective is shattering."—Victor Navasky, The New York Times
The Dies Committee
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Author : August Raymond Ogden
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1945
The Dies Committee written by August Raymond Ogden and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1945 with History categories.
Communist Activities Hearings Before The Committee On Un American Activities House Of Representatives Eighty First Congress First Second Session S
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1949
Communist Activities Hearings Before The Committee On Un American Activities House Of Representatives Eighty First Congress First Second Session S written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1949 with Communism categories.
Investigation Of Un American Propaganda Activities In The United States
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Author : United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1944
Investigation Of Un American Propaganda Activities In The United States written by United States. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities (1938-1944) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1944 with Communism categories.
Mccarthyism
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Author : Charles River Charles River Editors
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-01-26
Mccarthyism written by Charles River Charles River Editors and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-26 with categories.
*Includes pictures *Profiles the Alger Hiss case *Includes testimony from HUAC hearings and McCarthy's hearings *Includes quotes from McCarthy about his career *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents In 1947, at the start of the Cold War, President Truman tried to assure Americans who were worried about Communists in government that he was "not worried about the Communist Party taking over the Government of the United States, but I am against a person, whose loyalty is not to the Government of the United States, holding a Government job. They are entirely different things. I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that." Nonetheless, shortly after World War II, Congress' House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) began investigating Americans across the country for suspected ties to Communism. The most famous victims of these witch hunts were Hollywood actors, such as Charlie Chaplin, whose "Un-American activity" was being neutral at the beginning of World War II, but at the beginning of the Cold War, many Americans had the Red Scare. Among the people called before HUAC, perhaps none are as controversial as Alger Hiss. Hiss had graduated from Harvard Law, after which he worked as a clerk for Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, worked in the Roosevelt administration for the Agricultural Adjustment Association, and was Head of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. That background didn't exactly sound like one held by a Soviet spy, let alone a Communist, but Elizabeth Bentley, a former Communist, notified the Committee about a suspected spy ring and named several names, including Hiss. More notably, Hiss was also accused of being a Communist and Soviet spy by an admitted Communist, Whittaker Chambers. HUAC was well in decline by the time the '60s dawned, a fact so obvious that HUAC actually tried to restore its reputation by changing its name to the Internal Security Committee in 1969. Nevertheless, a few years later, the committee's authority was rolled into the House Judiciary Committee's, bringing to an end one of Congress' most controversial chapters. Another factor was the disrepute the Red Scare fell into because of the antics of Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy had made waves in 1950 by telling the Republican Women's Club in Wheeling, West Virginia that he had a list of dozens of known Communists working in the State Department. The political theater helped Senator McCarthy become the most prominent anti-Communist crusader in the government, and the Rosenberg case only further emboldened him. McCarthy continued to claim he held evidence suggesting Communist infiltration throughout the government, but anytime he was pressed to produce his evidence, McCarthy would not name names. Instead, he'd accuse those who questioned his evidence of being Communists themselves. McCarthy's rise made it possible for him to continue lobbing accusations against people, but the Senator finally met his match when he went after the Army. As chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, McCarthy summoned decorated World War II veterans and challenged their loyalty, and when he openly suggested World War II hero Brigadier General Ralph W. Zwicker was a Communist during one hearing, the military had enough. In April 1954, the committee hearings were widely televised, and Americans watched Army members demand that McCarthy name names and provide evidence. The Army's legal representative, Joseph Nye Welch, repeatedly demanded that McCarthy produce the list of alleged Communists in the U.S. Army and railed at the Senator: "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" McCarthy was publicly and permanently repudiated. He would be censured by Congress, and he would die just a few years later.