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Nineteen Harvard professors have signed an American Civil Liberties Union petition advocating the abolition of the House Un-American Activities Committee. In all, 250 professors from colleges across the country signed the statement...
Jones said yesterday that the work of the committee "can be done by the FBI in a more legal and orderly procedure." "The Committee spends time on its own particular definition of un-American," Jones said. He suggested that it should investigate the John Birch Society, in avid Communist-hunting group based in Belmont: "I can't imagine anything more thoroughly un-American...
...camera work is murky, its sound track raucous and shrill. But its impact is pure boffo. Prints of Operation Abolition are booked months in advance by Army camps, student groups, American Legion posts, political meetings, churches and corporations. Pennsylvania Democrat Francis E. Walter, chairman of the House Committee on Un-American Activities, estimates that more than 10 million people have seen the film since its release last July...
Subpoenaed Film. Operation Abolition is a documentary report on student demonstrations against an Un-American Activities subcommittee hearing in San Francisco last May. Much of the footage concentrates on "Black Friday," May 13, when student-provoked city police turned fire hoses on the unruly, song-chanting crowd, dragged and pushed demonstrators down the steps of city hall, arrested 68 students (mostly from the University of California, some from Stanford University, San Francisco State and the University of San Francisco) on charges of inciting a riot and resisting arrest. The House Committee subpoenaed film of the incidents from two San Francisco...
...YORK CITY, March 14--The latest attack on the House Un-American Activities Committee apparently is going to be based on Yankee traditions and supported with folk songs...