The men who named names and derailed dozens of Hollywood careers. By David L. Dunbar THR founder Billy Wilkerson devoted many a front page to lambasting alleged communists. When the House Un-American ...

“Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?” Members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities raised this question with unrelenting zeal in a series of hearings over ...

The House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed eight members of Berkeley's radical Left, last Thursday, to give testimony about their Vietnam protest activities. At Harvard, members of SDS, ...

When the House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed filmmakers to testify about communism in the industry, a few held their ground — and for a time, lost their livelihood. By David L. Dunbar ...

Last summer the House Un-American Activities Committee treated the public to a rare political extravaganza. During its investigation of anti-war organizations a defense lawyer was hauled, screaming, ...

This archival footage, captured on October 28, 1947, shows writer Dalton Trumbo providing his testimony in front of the U.S. government’s notorious House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC), an ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Day after day a plainly dressed witness, an Imperial Dragon, or Grand Nighthawk, a Kludd, or some other officer of the Ku Klux Klan sits quietly on the witness stand, across the ...

In the Cold War years, the U.S. government and political dissent run a dangerous collision course. The HUAC is typical of several government institutions (e.g., COINTELPRO) aiming to investigate and ...

WASHINGTON — Even when empty, the Cannon Caucus Room, where men and women argued and fought for their lives and their livelihoods in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee decades ago, is ...