Frank - I doff my hat to you. To have known those brave people must have been a life-enhancing, and probably a life-changing experience. I do believe that Dalton Trumbo was one of the scriptwriters for the UK ATV television series "Robin Hood" - a story of the little men against the oppressors... Trumbo was an incredible writer, and made his mark on films in spite of HUAC and the whole McCarthy thing.

And we shouldn't get smug in this country and say things like "only in America" - we have our own illiberal élite over here at the moment.