Members of HUAC including Richard Nixon (right), 1948. Photo: Library of Congress. House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) In the Cold War years, the U.S. government and political dissent ...

By the late 1940s, hyping the Red menace allowed ambitious politicians and bureaucrats like Joe McCarthy, Hoover, and HUAC member Richard Nixon to advance their careers and ideological agendas.

Rev. Richard E. Mumma, treasurer and member of the executive committee on the Anti-HUAC Committee, said that although no definite plans had been made yet, "some of our members will probably go to ...

Members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities raised this question with unrelenting zeal in a series of hearings over nine blustery and widely publicized days in October 1947.

On April 25, 1951, he returned to the HUAC hearings and admitted that he had been a party member from 1944 to 1945. He named 26 other party members, including Adrian Scott. By turning informer, he ...

Known as HUAC, the powerful congressional committee held hearings in Milwaukee March 28-30, 1955. A four-member subcommittee camped out in the Federal Building, 517 E. Wisconsin Ave.

Members of college organizations who appear before HUAC probably have less to lose than NAACP members in Alabama. Nevertheless, there are compelling reasons why Harvard should take a stand against ...

Donald Jackson (HUAC member and former House Representative from California): May I say that moral scruples, however laudable, do not constitute legal reason for refusing to answer the question.

Martin Berkeley: 161 names Screenwriter (Tarantula, 1955; Revenge of the Creature, 1957)He was HUAC’s all-star friendly witness for the quantity, if not the quality, of his contribution to the ...