HUAC
Americannoun
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Now available to stream on Amazon Prime, the film takes place during a dramatized week of production on “I Love Lucy” in 1952 as Ball’s suspected ties to communism were under investigation by HUAC.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 21, 2021
With accessible prose and astute academic insight, Doherty shows us that both the studios and the Hollywood Ten were victims of HUAC.
From Washington Post • Apr. 13, 2018
HUAC, he insisted, didn’t exist by the early 1960s and, anyway, no women’s group played such a role in HUAC’s downfall.
From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012
When later called to testify before HUAC, Bohm pleaded the Fifth Amendment rather than name names.
From Scientific American • Jan. 30, 2012
Against the law, Hoover began passing classified files to his contacts on HUAC, with documents describing Bentley's alleged spy ring.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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