Columbia Pictures

Red Channels Published, Launching Broadcasting Blacklist and Corporate "Smear and Clear" Racket

1950-06-22 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

American Business Consultants Inc. publishes Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television on June 22, 1950, as an anti-Communist pamphlet-style book naming 151 actors, writers, musicians, broadcast journalists, and others in the context of purported Communist manipulation …

American Business Consultants John G. Keenan Kenneth M. Bierly Theodore C. Kirkpatrick Vincent Hartnett +5 more hollywood-blacklist mccarthyism red-scare corporate-complicity broadcasting +1 more

Waldorf Statement Launches Hollywood Blacklist, Studio Executives Pledge to Fire Hollywood Ten

1947-11-25 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

Eric Johnston, president of the Motion Picture Association of America, issues the two-page Waldorf Statement on November 25, 1947, following a closed-door meeting by forty-eight motion picture company executives at New York City’s Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on November 24, 1947. The statement is …

Motion Picture Association of America Eric Johnston Louis B. Mayer Eddie Mannix Harry Cohn +16 more hollywood-blacklist mccarthyism red-scare corporate-complicity first-amendment +1 more