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- 1996 Feb 13 (Creation)
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Typescript transcript of interview with Ring Lardner, Jr, scriptwriter, Hollywood, California, USA, relating to the hearings of US Congress House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) investigations into Hollywood film producing community, 1947, including being subpoenaed to give evidence at the hearings; conflicting legal advice on how to respond to questions about membership of the Communist Party; evidence of witnesses making accusations against communist sympathisers, known as 'friendly witnesses'; Lardner's appearance before the Committee; publicity given to the hearings; his imprisonment, (1950); the development of a 'black list' of individuals prevented from being employed in the film industry; effect of the hearings on his career; employment by American television producer in the UK [1950s]; effects of the campaign against alleged communists and communist sympathisers in US society instigated by Senator Joseph Raymond McCarthy, 1950-1954, (McCarthyism). 19pp
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