Congress and hollywood filmmakers. Tv,ext on American History blacklist survivors, family members read testimonies and statements from those subpoenaed during the testimony. The Writers Guild foundation and hollywood progressives host this event. Onthe record will show that october 27, 1947, the subcommittee of the House Unamerican Activities Committee at with the chairman, dishonorable jail time is providing desperate siding. The House Unamerican Activities Committee is in session. Let yourself go. [laughter] there are not even subpoenas im going to speak anyway. My name is Richard Dreyfuss. [applause] i am a child of the blacklist. My parents were not in show business, but they were the victims of the blacklist nonetheless. I lived on 2 eighteen st in bayside queens and every house on that block was either a communist or socialist. If you had not fought hitlers and had not gone to the Abraham Lincoln brigade, you better have a dam good reason. [applause] when i was a young boy, i irn
The record will show that on october 27th, 1947, a subcommittee of the house on American Activities Committee met with the chairman, dishonorable Parnell Thomas presiding. The house on American Activities Committee is in session. Let yourself go. You, sir, are not even subpoenaed to testify here. Yeah, im going to speak anyway. Very well, mr. Dreyfuss. My name is Richard Dreyfuss. And im a child of the blacklist. I was not my parents were not in show business but they were the victims of the blacklist nonetheless. I lived on 218 street in bay side, queens and every house on that block was lived in by a communist or a socialist. And if you have not fought hitler twice and not gone to the Abraham Lincoln brigade, you better have a dam good reason. When i was a young boy i turned to my mom and i said im the luckiest kid in the world and she said why . I said because im white, jewish and american. And she said its time you came into the meetings. And when i was about 10, i turned to a frie
Thank you, john. I am delighted to introduce paul , the director of the center for vision and values, which focuses on advancing freedom with christian scholarship. Paul is also a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institution on war, revolution and peace at stanford university. Hes a frequent contributor to msnbc, cspan and fox news. In addition hes written for the New York Times, wall street journal, Political Science quarterly and many other publications. Among the numerous books he has offered are the crusader, Ronald Reagan and the fall of god and of Ronald Reagan, god and george w. William p. Clark, Ronald Reagans top hand. Today i am excited paul will be focusing on his newly released book, dupes however service have been manipulated how progressives have been manipulated for centuries. We are looking forward to hearing your discussion on this aspect of history the prominent role of the duped. Please help me welcome dr. Paul kengor. [applause] thank you, heather. John and everybody
Among the numerous books he has offered are the crusader, Ronald Reagan and the fall of communism, god and of Ronald Reagan, god and george w. Bush, and william p. Clark, Ronald Reagans top hand. Today i am excited paul will be focusing on his newly released book, dupes however service have been manipulated how progressives have been manipulated for centuries. We are looking forward to hearing your discussion on this aspect of history the prominent role of the duped. Please help me welcome dr. Paul kengor. [applause] thank you, heather. John and everybody here heritage, everybody for coming. Lee edwards. I really struggled with how to organize this talk because i turned in the manuscript of two 250,000 words and about 1000 pages, and i think god and Ronald Reagan was around 100,000 words. It gives you an idea of how enormous the task was and how many dupes are out there. I am not joking when i say this could be volume one in a multi volume stat set. I did not know where to stop. There
Tonights event is going to be a doubleclick event. Talking about confronting, but also the revolutionary life of paul robison. His birthday was actually a week ago. This guy, horne is a brilliant scholar, brilliant historian and i want you to give a round of applause and welcome him here. [applause] all night, all day. We are going to be fighting for freddie gray. All night, all day, we are going to be fighting for freddie gray. First of all, let me say that its an honor and pleasure to be back here to read and not. I was here months ago to introduce two other new books that ive written and i can iterate to be quite an honor that theyve invited me back again. For those who may not be familiar, freddie gray was the young black man who had a fatal encounter with the police in the city of baltimore. And he is in a long list of such young but people who have had fatal encounters with the authorities. Im thinking of khmer rice in cleveland and eric garner in staten island, new york and Mich