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Hace 4 días · A significant step for HUAC was its investigation of the charges of espionage brought against Alger Hiss in 1948. This investigation ultimately resulted in Hiss's trial and conviction for perjury, and convinced many of the usefulness of congressional committees for uncovering communist subversion.
Hace 2 días · HUAC is best known for its investigations of Alger Hiss and the Hollywood film industry, which led to the blacklisting of hundreds of actors, writers, and directors.
20 de jun. de 2024 · Joseph McCarthy, U.S. senator who lent his name to McCarthyism. He dominated the U.S. political climate in the early 1950s through his sensational but unproven charges of communist subversion in high government circles. In 1954 his Senate colleagues officially censured him for unbecoming conduct.
Hace 1 día · Wallace was further damaged days after the convention when Whittaker Chambers and Elizabeth Bentley testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee that several government officials associated with Wallace (including Alger Hiss and John Abt) were Communist infiltrators.
20 de jun. de 2024 · The rollercoaster for Alger Hiss from June 26, 1945 through Thursday March 22, 1951, must have been electric. Here is Hiss in June 1945, at the bottom right, sitting as the United Nations Secretary General, at the same table as the U.S. President, arguably as his equal as a head of state.
24 de jun. de 2024 · "An extraordinary collection of newsreel, propaganda, and home-movie footage drawn from the archives of 18 nations, including color close-ups of Adolf Hitler taken by his mistress, that present an unvarnished perspective of the war's pivotal events.
20 de jun. de 2024 · HUAC’s most celebrated case, however, did not involve an entertainment industry figure but instead Alger Hiss, a former U.S. State Department official who was convicted in January 1950 of perjury concerning his involvement with Whittaker Chambers, who accused him of having participated in a communist spy ring.
