In the fall of 1960 a fire-bomb was thrown against the front of the office of the Citizens' Committee to Protect American Freedom, a Los Angeles group formed to oppose HUAC. The bomb shattered the door and started a fire. The bombing came shortly after a huge swastika was smeared on the door of the Citizens' Committee offices. The mailbox was shot off. An attempt was made to set fire to the home of Frank Wilkinson, the group's secretary, a leading figure in the movement to abolish HUAC (now serving a one-year jail term for contempt of the Committee). Wilkinson's wife received anonymous telephone calls threatening his life. Wilkinson's life insurance was canceled. Log Angeles students who joined him in a TV program in opposition to HUAC barely escaped a beating by thugs after they left the studio. In the spring of 1961 the New York office of a HUAC abolition group was broken into and vandalized.

On January 2, 1961, a group of members of the American Nazi Party descended on Washington to picket the White House in support of HUAC. On the same day a screaming, threatening mob of Fascist-oriented refugees besieged a meeting in Washington's All Souls Unitarian Church held in support of a HUAC- abolition campaign. The atmosphere was electric with imminent violence, bloodshed was averted by prompt action of the police, who formed a protective cordon around the meeting. When an outbreak seemed inevitable, the police requested that the meeting be terminated as quickly as possible and supplied a motorcycle escort to protect the participants on their way out of the city. The picket signs of these fanatics were stored in Chairman Walter's office.

Two weeks later an inflamed champion of the Committee burst into the office of University of California Professor Thomas F. Parkinson, poet, Guggenheim fellow, author and teacher. The intruder carried a Bible in one hand and a double-barreled shotgun in the other. He raised the gun and fired. The shots ripped into the back of a graduate student, Stephen Mann Thomas, and brought instant death. Professor Parkinson suffered a shattered jaw which required skin grafting and plastic surgery,

The killer, John Harrison Farmer, was apprehended the next day. In his briefcase was this note: "Death to all Communists. Death to all fellow travellers. Death to every friend of Communism. Death in the name of God to all the evil hosts of Communism and its followers." Farmer had also marked for death Assistant Professor Richard T. Drinnon. Farmer did not know these men. Both of them had opposed HUAC and were members of SLATE, a campus anti-HUAC organization. He had read about their activity and was particularly exercised by an article attacking Parkinson for his criticism of the Committee.

HenryKrinkle posted:

mccarthy actually had little to do w/ HUAC and the blacklists, gyroguy. but yeah probably worth learning about ofc.

reducing the defining characteristic for a century of american foreign and domestic policy to the actions of one craaazy clown during a brief period in the public imagination is probably the most significant ideological accomplishment of all time

getfiscal posted:

damn. i hope american jews were able to overcome blacklisting and eventually find jobs in hollywood.

iirc the first movie that broke the blacklist was actually the pro-Zionist Exodus.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dalton_Trumbo

discipline posted:

yah we all need a union, bucko

yea a Union of Soviet Socialist Republics

Urbandale posted:

stegosaurus posted:

I've been told the ibew is very reactionary

id buy it but based on what

i was just told. ill ask the details. i creeped on the business manager on fb and he 'likes' occupy salt lake page which could mean just about anything honestly.