Item COLD WAR 27/19 - Transcript of interview with lawyer Arthur Kinoy, 1996

Typescript transcript of interview with Arthur Kinoy, US lawyer working on the behalf of the United Electrical Workers, and involved in the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg for espionage, relating to the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954, (McCarthyism) including the attacks on unions by corporations resisting their claims for workers rights; the 'black list' of writers, actors etc including playwright Arthur Miller, accused of communist sympathies; McCarthy's technique in using 'friendly' witnesses, themselves under threat of accusation, to accuse others; McCarthy's sources of funding; the climate of fear created which discouraged the exercising of political rights and public expression; the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenburg, and the refusal of Jerome Frank, US Court of Appeals Judge, 1941-1957, to support the appeal for a stay of execution for the Rosenburgs, Jun 1953; the overestimation of the threat of the Communist Party in the US and failure of authorities to make any convictions for sabotage of use of violence against the government; the nature of Loyalty Review Boards established during this era and eventually declared unconstitutional; and the use of the Hollywood film industry in anti-communist as propaganda. 27pp