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Free The Hollywood Ten

Date: 10 28 1947
Description: Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the "Hollywood Ten," together with members of their families at a demonstration before their im...
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Joseph McCarthy with Report

Date: 10 27 1952
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin holding up a report on Democratic Presidential candidate Adlai E. Stevenson that linked him to a host of extreme le...
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Dalton Trumbo

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Description: Screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, seated at a typewriter.
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Herbert Biberman

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Description: Herbert Biberman, one of the blacklisted Hollywood Ten who were jailed for failure to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee about Communist...
Magazine or Periodical

Progressive Magazine McCarthy Issue

Date: 04 1954
Description: Cover of "McCarthy: A Documented Record," a special issue of the Progressive magazine. The cover features a drawing of a Birdseye view of Washington...
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Army McCarthy Hearings Begin

Date: 04 22 1954
Description: Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens (left) watches as Senator Joseph R. McCarthy raises a point of order as the Army-McCarthy hearings begin. Also seated...
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Four of the Hollywood Ten

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Description: Four members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are: Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, and Dalton Tr...
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Joe McCarthy Takes Notes

Date: 04 22 1954
Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy writes in a note pad during the testimony of General Miles Reber, the first witness during the Army-McCarthy hearings, what the ...
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McCarthy Debates a Point

Date: 05 24 1954
Description: During the Army-McCarthy Hearings, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy replies to a Presidential statement that the executive responsibility cannot be usurped by an...
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McCarthy and Eisenhower

Date: 03 03 1954
Description: During the first months of his administration, President Dwight Eisenhower handled Joseph R. McCarthy by publicly ignoring him. However, after the abuse t...
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Breaking the Blockade

Date: 05 05 1949
Description: Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector....
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Hollywood Ten: Alvah Bessie

Date: 1947
Description: One of the Hollywood Ten, Alvah Bessie (second from left, holding a cigarette) and others at a luncheon.
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Eight of the Hollywood Ten

Date: 1947
Description: Eight members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo,...
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Members of the Hollywood Ten

Date: 1947
Description: Some members of the Hollywood Ten at an airport. The bald man on the far left is Alvah Bessie. Near the center with his hand gesturing is Herbert Biberman....
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Free the Hollywood Ten

Date: 10 28 1947
Description: Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the Hollywood Ten, together with members of their families at a demonstration before their impr...
Manuscript

Hollywood Ten: Alvah Bessie's Subpoena

Date: 09 18 1947
Description: Subpoena for Alvah Bessie to appear before the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Un-American Activities on October 23, 1947.
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"McCarthyism is Treason"

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Description: Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, laughing for the camera, displays a newspaper advertisement that proclaims: "McCarthyism is Treason to America."
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In the Year of the Pig

Date: 03 25 1954
Description: Note on the back: "Defenders dig in. Dien Bien Phu, Indochina: An airport once covered this area where soldiers have dug deep trenches as protection from b...
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Ho Chi Minh as a Radical in France

Date: 1920
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Ho Chi Minh, with a shallow depth of field and simple background. Ho Chi Minh looks off to his right.
Poster

Hail the Formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement!

Date: 1984
Description: Poster advertising the formation of the Revolutionary Internationalist Movement, an international Communist organization. The participating member organiza...

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