“The committee was renamed the House Committee on Internal Security in 1969; a vestige of this committee still remains as the House Judiciary Committee. The committee concerned itself with investigating everything from Communist activity to Nazis in America to the Ku Klux Klan. It had a hand in the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans and the Hollywood blacklists. HUAC is often confused with Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, which, perforce, was a part ...of the Senate. Both organizations were criticized by former President Harry Truman as being “the most Un-American thing in the country today” in 1959. · · · WE ARE LIVING THROUGH the most crucial moment of our history, the moment which will result in a new life for us, or a new death. I am not being in the least metaphorical about this. When I say “a new life,” I mean a new vision of America, a vision which will allow us to face, and begin to change, the facts of American life; and when I say “death,”MoreLessRead More Read Less
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