Word: bradenism
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Frank Wilkinson and Carl Braden, speaking at the Community Church of Boston, claimed that the Committee had investigated them because they had criticized it, and support projects of which its members disapproved...
...Supreme Court upheld the convictions of Braden and Wilkinson for refusing to answer questions about personal contacts and associations in a 5-4 decision on February...
According to Braden, the First Amendment "has been eroded for the past 23 years. It's pretty well gone...
Howe said that the Supreme Court's recent decisions on the Braden and Wilkinson cases "were not meant to give the Court's blessing" to the HUAC. The decisions, he explained, "merely said Congress had the right to keep such an absurd body going." He remarked, "If the Supreme Court were the House, it would vote to abolish the Committee...
...subcommittee had good reason to suspect that Braden and Wilkinson were Communists, wrote Justice Stewart, and reasonable grounds for trying to find out whether they were members of the Communist propaganda apparatus. The court carefully avoided any blanket endorsement of committee investigations (noted Stewart in a rare aside: "These opinions do not imply any personal views as to the wisdom or unwisdom of the creation or continuance of the committee"), but it rejected the argument that Wilkinson and Braden were being persecuted merely for attacking the committee. Nor did their attacks make them immune from questioning as Communist suspects...