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Thread #123258 Message #2791738
Posted By: Don Firth
18-Dec-09 - 09:59 PM
Thread Name: BS: US Health Care Reform
Subject: RE: BS: US Health Care Reform
A short list of some of the better known people whom Senator McCarthy accused:
(I specifically remember his accusing Chaplin, because I was in my early twenties at the time. McCarthy was the chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and, as I understand it, the House Un-American Activities Committee was under the Permanent Subcommittee on Investicatons. McCarthy took special interest in HUAC).
Nelson Algren, writer[ Elmer Bernstein, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein, composer and conductor Charlie Chaplin, actor and director Aaron Copland, composer Bartley Crum, attorney Jules Dassin, director Dolores del Río, actress W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and author Howard Fast, writer John Garfield, actor Lee Grant, actress Dashiell Hammett, author Elizabeth Hawes, clothing designer, author, equal rights activist Lillian Hellman, playwright Langston Hughes, writer Sam Jaffe, actor Garson Kanin, writer and director Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and ecdysiast (translation: stripper) Philip Loeb, actor Joseph Losey, director Burgess Meredith, actor Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist Zero Mostel, actor J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, "father of the atomic bomb" Dorothy Parker, writer Linus Pauling, chemist, winner of two Nobel prizes Martin Ritt, actor and director Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, writer, political and civil rights activist Edward G. Robinson, actor Waldo Salt, screenwriter Pete Seeger, folk singer Artie Shaw, jazz musician William L. Shirer, journalist Paul Sweezy, economist and founder-editor of Monthly Review Tsien Hsue-shen, physicist Orson Welles, actor, writer, and director
This is not an exhaustive list by any means. McCarthy even voiced suspicions about the loyalty of President Dwight D. Eisenhower (Five-Star General [ret.])