Re: Most significant Historical moments

["'A. Joseph Ross'" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On Wed, 28 May 1997, Donna Halper wrote:

> Bump may have referred to the era of McCarthyism wherein the House
> UnAmerican Activities Committee, in which McCarthy took an active part,
> called a large number of citizens in and accused them of all sorts of
> things.  

As a Senator, McCarthy took no part in the House UnAmerican Activities
Committee.  they ran their own show.  It was in that committee that Nixon
investigated Alger Hiss.  And that still had nothing to do with the
"blacklist," which was run by a private concern which published "Red
Channels," a book to which most of the industry subscribed.

==============================================================================
  A. Joseph Ross, J.D.                                          617/367-0468
  15 Court Square                                       lawyer@world.std.com
  Boston, MA 02108-2573                        http://world.std.com/~lawyer/
==============================================================================

------------------------------