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Today's Trumbo: Try telling academic critics of Israel McCarthyism is behind us

Palumbo-Liu, David
http://www.salon.com/2015/12/02/todays_trumbo_try_telling_academic_critics_of_israel_mccarthyism_is_behind_us/

Publisher:  Salon.com
Date Written:  02/12/2015
Year Published:  2015  
Resource Type:  Article

"Trumbo," starring Bryan Cranston as Academy Award-winning Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, tells the sordid and tragic story of the anti-communist witch hunt commonly referred to as the "Red Scare," which involved the interrogation and prosecution of suspected communists. Its instrument in Congress was the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), created in 1938 and not officially disbanded until 1975, which subpoenaed individuals, put them on the stand, and demanded that they answer one key question, "Are you, or have you ever been, a member of the Communist Party?"

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