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Sep 25, 2026
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And I think what he did, he pointed out, he made great points.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And people try to connect him to HUAC.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And it's like, well, he's a senator.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The best thing he did was inspire HUAC and also just basically have a...
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He really gave the right its real last win.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
like real win i mean able to take out some take out some communists take out a couple literally
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Adam SmithGUEST
And during that time, he effectively, again, it's sort of like an elite response to what the street is burning stuff down about.
Adam SmithGUEST
And you can also say that the riots may have been an op, in effect, or stoked to create the conditions, maybe like what COVID was, to create a larger state apparatus.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And I think what he did, he pointed out, he made great points.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And people try to connect him to HUAC.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
And it's like, well, he's a senator.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
The best thing he did was inspire HUAC and also just basically have a...
Pete QuiñonesHOST
He really gave the right its real last win.
Pete QuiñonesHOST
like real win i mean able to take out some take out some communists take out a couple literally
13 MINS LATER
Adam SmithGUEST
And during that time, he effectively, again, it's sort of like an elite response to what the street is burning stuff down about.
Adam SmithGUEST
And you can also say that the riots may have been an op, in effect, or stoked to create the conditions, maybe like what COVID was, to create a larger state apparatus.
VickiHOST
that's terrible.
DanHOST
Jackie Robinson testifies before the House Un-American Activities Committee to dispute a declaration from Paul Robeson that Negroes would not fight against Russia.
VickiHOST
Oh, wow.
DanHOST
Yeah.
Adam GlassHOST
And that's, I mean, we're post-war US.
Adam GlassHOST
We're on the cusp of the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Adam GlassHOST
We are in a moment where critiquing that American imperialism will get you cut down.
John Patrick Owatari-DorganHOST
Right.
Chris BedfordGUEST
But Richard Nixon, his anti-communist bona fides were very well established.
Chris BedfordGUEST
He had, uh, been the chair of the House Committee on American Activities and had been very successful in prosecuting communist and American governance.
Chris BedfordGUEST
When he said he was willing to go, that was interesting.
Chris BedfordGUEST
The reason why he did is because the United States was at war with Cold War, but it was a hot war in a lot of places for such a Cold War.
Jim RomanovichHOST
Gregory Peck had a stellar reputation of being a decent, dignified leading man, although his private life was a wee bit more colorful.
Jim RomanovichHOST
He challenged the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947, which made him a political target of Richard Nixon.
Jim RomanovichHOST
The NSA also kept a biographical file on Peck as part of its monitoring of prominent Americans.
Jim RomanovichHOST
Do you know when that was declassified? 2017.
Duncan ShieldsHOST
That's great.
Duncan ShieldsHOST
The thing started to decline a little bit for him, and then he named names in the HUAC commission.
Duncan ShieldsHOST
Oh, did he? Oh, really? So he's a bad guy.
Duncan ShieldsHOST
Because they were talking to him like, if we can take away custody of your children if you don't give us names, right? So he was like...
Ben MankiewiczHOST
Director Jules Dassin used more than 100 locations throughout the city.
Ben MankiewiczHOST
Dassin was a sought after filmmaker at the time, but he'd soon be blacklisted by the House Un-American Activities Committee over suspicions he was a communist.
Ben MankiewiczHOST
As for The Naked City, it was loosely based on a book of Ouija's photographs.
Ben MankiewiczHOST
In all, it was a perfect blend of everything Stanley was interested in; crime dramas, New York City streets, the movies, and Ouija.
Travis SalleyGUEST
So So it just gives us an idea of how widespread or at least how concerned the government was on these things.
David BorysHOST
They were so worried about the growing dissent that U.S. authorities launched investigations through bodies like the House Un-American Activities Committee and the FBI's counterintelligence program, otherwise known as COINTELPRO.
David BorysHOST
Anti-war groups, civil rights activists, nonconformists, and suspected radicals face surveillance, infiltration, and questioning.
David BorysHOST
This reflected government fears that protest movements threatened national security and social stability.
Kate WestworthHOST
One of the most controversial chapters of Taylor's life came during the anti-communist movements in the US and especially in Hollywood.
Kate WestworthHOST
In 1944, Taylor helped form the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals and was called to testify before the HUAC, the House Un-American Activities Comedy, in 1947 as a friendly witness, naming names and expressing anti-communist sentiment.
Kate WestworthHOST
He called screenwriter Lester Cole, actor Howard De Silva and actress Karen Morley communists and criticized the screenwriter's guilt.
Kate WestworthHOST
I quote some of his testimony.
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