HY 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Hollywood Blacklist, Blood Bank, Loyalty Program
29 Aug 2016
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The cold war at home: the search for security. Fear of communist threat at home in government, in our institutions, in our colleges. Most members of congress did not believe that there was going to be a communist revolution. They were in fact afraid of espionage fear of individual communists. This fear of communist becomes somewhat of an obsession. Involvement of the federal government: role of president truman. Truman is very concerned with how he looks politically he does not want to look. Soft to communists or this treat: loyalty-security program, 1947. If you are a federal employee, you will be investigated to see if you have any association, sympathies, favor, etc. to communists. The fbi does not think that any involvement was too small to dig up. If there was enough suspicion, you were expected to plead against that in a court of law. It was very hard to prove your innocence.
