HUAC ended the hearings, calling the demonstrators communist dupes. Charges were dropped against all but one demonstrator. He was acquitted in a jury trial. – Scott McCabe. Tags; ...

He was HUAC’s all-star friendly witness for the quantity, ... Wilkerson accused 11 Hollywood writers of being Communist sympathizers, including four who ended up being part of the Hollywood Ten.

The slightly more respectable, liberal, sometimes ex-leftist version acknowledged that HUAC, McCarthy and company might have exaggerated and, ... “The strike of 1945 ended in a stalemate, ...

In light of the HUAC hearings, Parker would ruefully quip, “Fascism isn’t coming—it’s here! ... How Hollywood tried to fight fascism and ended up blacklisting suspected Communists.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, as anti-communist sentiment gained ground in the United States, paranoia and persecution swept through Hollywood. The House Un-American Activities (HUAC) began ...

"HUAC is almost finished with the Klan, and now I guess it's our turn," the spokesman said. ... To end the opposition they had to find a scapegoat," Miss Kocel continued.

Seventy-five years ago, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC for purposes of pronunciation) launched the first of its series of postwar investigations into alleged communist ...

Of the 16 people called before the committee during the Milwaukee hearings, 12 took the Fifth. In the end, not much came of HUAC's Milwaukee visit, apart from Killian being convicted of perjury.