Background Joseph McCarthy was a Republican Senator from Wisconsin, elected in 1947. He came to national prominence in 1950 when he claimed that there were Communists, communists spies, and Communist sympathizers in all levels of government. He began hearings to root them out. He was finally censured by the Senate in 1954 after he began attacking the Army and after a Senator committed suicide because of his hearings. Helping him were his chief counsel, Roy Cohn - an attorney, disbarred for misconduct in 1986 - who later became Donald Trump's attorney and his political mentor. Cohn also worked with another Trump mentor, Roger Stone, on Ronald Reagan's campaign for President in 1979 - 1980. He died of AIDS in 1986. Future Attorney General (and Presidential brother) Robert Kennedy was an assistant counsel on the same Senate committee.
President Ronald Reagan, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, as did Walt Disney. Eventually, actors and screenwriters were blacklisted in Hollywood, leading to their being unemployable under their own names (or at all). The movie "Trumbo" portrays the life of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo during this time (he wrote, among many other screenplays, Exodus and Spartacus - actor Kirk Douglas, as a producer of the movie, insisted that he get credit for Spartacus).
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, almost doubled his staff and efforts, which led to thousands of workers losing their jobs. The American Legion supported all of these efforts. Both conservatives and some liberals joined the "movement" - united by their opposition to "internationalism" (particularly the United Nations), opposition to social welfare programs, (particularly those established by Roosevelt's New Deal), and opposition to efforts to reduce inequalities in the social structure of the United States.
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President Ronald Reagan, as president of the Screen Actors Guild, testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, as did Walt Disney. Eventually, actors and screenwriters were blacklisted in Hollywood, leading to their being unemployable under their own names (or at all). The movie "Trumbo" portrays the life of screenwriter Dalton Trumbo during this time (he wrote, among many other screenplays, Exodus and Spartacus - actor Kirk Douglas, as a producer of the movie, insisted that he get credit for Spartacus).
J. Edgar Hoover, Director of the FBI, almost doubled his staff and efforts, which led to thousands of workers losing their jobs. The American Legion supported all of these efforts. Both conservatives and some liberals joined the "movement" - united by their opposition to "internationalism" (particularly the United Nations), opposition to social welfare programs, (particularly those established by Roosevelt's New Deal), and opposition to efforts to reduce inequalities in the social structure of the United States.
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