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due to two factors, a lack of hygiene in the system and the lack of security management. communicators,he on c-span2. created in 1938 to investigate not the influence and agents in the united states, the house of representatives un-american activities committee is more widely known from postwar investigations of those suspected of communist ties. real america , operation abolition, i 1960 mayittee film documenting a 1960 filtering in san francisco. the film claims that communist infiltrators protested and disrupted the hearing, although many groups, including the aclu, disputed the charge at the time. time, ano estimated 50 million people watched operation abolition at meetings. of communistsample propaganda published by organization known as the calmness front. it is at this instant being distributed throughout the united states by dedicated hard-core communist agents. its pamphlet and others like play a major role in one phase of the communist war to destroy o ....
the documented events occurred in san francisco resulted in student protester arrests and the use of fire hoses. next, on american history tvs america, a film from 1960 one the challenges the authenticity of the document tree by replacing much of the original films narration with aclu commentary and criticism. he argues that the committee distorted the sequence of events through deceptive editing and ine numerous factual errors the telling of the story. executive director of the aclu of northern california. on behalf of that organization, we are going to show you a film you may have already seen. it was called, operation abolition. the film is spliced together from television newsreel footage subpoenaed by the house committee of un-american activities followed by a visit to san francisco in may 1960. the final film, produced and sold by washington, d.c. film company, has been made part of the official record of the committee. this is the committee s report. on the dat ....
watched operation abolition at screenings hosted by political and civic organizations. is a sample oft communist propaganda published by organization known as the calmness front. it is at this instant being distributed throughout the united states by dead dedicated, hard core communist agents. its pamphlet and others like play major role as artillery in one phase of the communist war phasetroy our nation a called by the communists, operation abolition. this is abolition. gentlemen, francis walker. mr. walker operation : abolition. this is what the communist call their current discredit its director, j edgar hoover. has givenist party top priority to operation abolition and has assigned agents trained in propaganda and education to this project. the scenes which you will be by newsreel taken photographers during hearings of the committee on un-american activities in san francisco, 12, 13, andon may 14, 1960. during the next few minutes, you will see revealed, ....
yes, there were demonstrations against the committee, some newspaper editorials against the committee s tactics. in fact, fairly widespread questioning of the committee by persons were present in many shades in the broad spectrum of political opinion. no doubt some communist, both foreign and domestic variety are against the committee, but we point out and we will prove with our own film that persons who demonstrate against the committee are not there thereby communists or communist dupes. if you are to be called a communist every time you stand up for basic american rights and freedoms, what is likely to happen question mark will you be silent, and if so, happen? will you be silent, and if so, is this what the house committee on un-american activities is after a silent, submissive, on protesting american? if not, why the falsifications in their own film? in a moment, you will see that film, known as operation abolition, but you will hear a corrected description o ....
school, i want to invite all of you to what i think is an extraordinary special event. tonight, we have the honor of rosenfeld here. he went on to enjoy a long career as an investigative reporter at the san francisco examiner and chronicle. i stayed in touch with him all those years. i have known him for at least 30 years. for all that time, seth was involved in his own personal of whatr the question was really going on here at berkeley during the 1960 s. book,sult is this subversives, the fbi s war on student radicals and reagan s rise to power. it is an extraordinary book. i was waiting for years to rita. it s an extraordinary book. , it. read it. this book is based on 250,000 documents. some of which you will see tonight. if you ve never seen a fbi document, you might be shocked. you might want to close your eyes when you see it. handwriting i j edgar hoover himself. looking out into the audience, let s do a poll. how many people remember j edgar hoover? good. we don ....