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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 …

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HUAC Hollywood Hearings Begin, Studio Executives Cooperate as "Friendly Witnesses"

1947-10-20 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 9/10

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 +8 more huac hollywood-blacklist mccarthyism red-scare corporate-complicity +1 more