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House Un-American Activities Committee
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House Un-American Activities Committee
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(Government, Politics & Diplomacy) the former name of the Internal Security Committee of the US House of Representatives: notorious for its anti-Communist investigations in the late 1940s and 1950s.


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As emotional and mental stress threatens to push him towards madness, he is summoned to appear before the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities and called to give the most challenging performance of his career.
The hearings conducted by the House UnAmerican Activities Committee for several decades during the Cold War and the solo hearings by a member of that committee's Senate counterpart, Joe McCarthy, demonstrate the dangers inherent in Harman's legislation.
Myron was fired in 1953 for taking the Fifth Amendment, refusing to name names at a House UnAmerican Activities (HUAC) hearing, and the family moved to Baltimore.
 
 
 
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