HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses"
The House Un-American Activities Committee opens its first postwar hearings on October 20, 1947, investigating alleged Communist influence in Hollywood with Chairman J. Parnell Thomas presiding and Robert E. Stripling serving as chief counsel. Drawing upon lists provided in The Hollywood Reporter, …
House Un-American Activities Committee
J. Parnell Thomas
Robert E. Stripling
Walt Disney
Jack L. Warner
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