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...will do no good to look for villains or heroes or saints or devils, because there were none; there were only victims," said Dalton Trumbo. Vaughn's book proves Trumbo's sorry point: the Broadway and Hollywood figures he discusses are pitiable figures, betraying each other, groveling in the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) mud, victimizing themselves to save their earning power. The few heroes, those people who defended their integrity and friends, were the most obvious victims. If they refused to cooperate they were thrown into jail, blacklisted, and destroyed...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Living the Nightmare--Up Close | 5/18/1972 | See Source »

...investigators were villains, or course, but more than that victims of their own ignorance, their perverted notions of freedom and patriotism, their lack of understanding. Witness this exchange from 1938, between a suspect and a member of the HUAC...

Author: By Michael Ryan, | Title: Living the Nightmare--Up Close | 5/18/1972 | See Source »

...precedent by which station owners at license renewal time would have to face a hearing and competitive bidding; and he compared the National Association of Broadcasters to "dead mackerel in the moonlight...it both shines and stinks." Not intimidated by politicians, Fly also resisted pressure from the Dies HUAC, which claimed that two FCC underlings had been associated with Communist front organizations...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Fifty Golden Years of Broadcasting... | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...union official whose schooling ended in the eighth grade. One of Berkeley's first student activists in the early 1960s, he protested ROTC, favored the Cuban Revolution and demonstrated against the House Un-American Activities Committee. For his efforts, Tigar was investigated by the California legislature's HUAC equivalent. California conservatives and their congressional allies were so disturbed by his activities that they pressured Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. to withdraw his offer of a clerkship for Tigar, who had graduated at the top of his law-school class. Brennan reluctantly went along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Tigar for the Defense | 12/14/1970 | See Source »

...HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) pays seven cents a mile. If you're coming from California that's almost twice the youth fare: which means you can live for two months free on HUAC's tab. HUAC finances the revolution...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: How Radicals Make Money | 6/22/1970 | See Source »

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