house un-american activities committee

     

The House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC or HCUA, 1938–1975) was an investigative committee of the Unite States House of Representatives. In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security". When the House abolished the committee in 1975, its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.

Trivia about house un-american activities committee

  • In May 1960, the San Francisco meeting of this House committee was disrupted by protesters from Berkeley
  • In 1947 Bogie joined other actors in protesting the witch hunts conducted by this committee
  • The dialog for "Are You Now or Have You Ever Been?" was drawn from the hearings of this committee during the 1950s
  • In 1948 White House aide Lauchlin Currie told this committee he wasn't a Soviet spy; today we know he was
  • After a name change to the House Internal Security Committee, it was abolished in 1975
  • In 1947 playwright Bertolt Brecht returned to Europe after testifying before this House committee

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