Red Channels
Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television was an anti-communist pamphlet published in the United States. The pamphlet was written by Theodore Kirkpatrick, a former FBI agent and Vincent Harnett, a television producer, and published by the right-wing journal Counterattack on June 22, 1950.
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Communist - United States - FBI - Right-wing - June 22 - 1950
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The pamphlet was released three years after the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating communist influence in the entertainment industry. The pamphlet listed 151 people in entertainment who were accused of being members of subversive and communist organizations. Sources were also cited in the pamphlet. The sources ranged from articles in newspapers, such as the Daily Worker, and other sources.
Related Topics:
House Un-American Activities Committee - Daily Worker
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People listed on the pamphlet were blacklisted until they appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
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The following are some of the names that appeared in the pamphlet.
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- Larry Adler
- Ralph Bell
- Leonard Bernard
- Walter Bernstein
- Marc Blitzstein
- Joseph Bromberg
- Lee J. Cobb
- Aaron Copland
- Norman Corwin
- Howard Da Silva
- Roger De Koven
- Dean Dixon
- Howard Duff
- Jose Ferrer
- John Garfield
- Will Geer
- Jack Gilford
- Ruth Gordon
- Lloyd Gough
- Morton Gould
- Dashiell Hammett
- Yip Harburg
- Lillian Hellman
- Judy Holliday
- Roderick B. Holmgren
- Lena Horne
- Langston Hughes
- Charles Irving
- Burl Ives
- Sam Jaffe
- Arthur Laurents
- Gypsy Rose Lee
- Madeline Lee
- Ray Lev
- Philip Loeb
- Joseph Losey
- Burgess Meredith
- Ben Myers
- Arthur Miller
- Henry Morgan
- Zero Mostel
- Dorothy Parker
- Arnold Perl
- Anne Revere
- Edward G. Robinson
- William N. Robson
- Hazel Scott
- Artie Shaw
- Pete Seeger
- Lisa Sergio
- Irwin Shaw
- Robert Lewis Shayon
- Ann Shepherd
- William L. Shirer
- Howard K. Smith
- Gale Sondergaard
- William Sweets
- Louis Untermeyer
- Orson Welles
- Josh White
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