McCarthyism
Arthur Penn on the McCarthy Era

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRniTHrSoRI

Director Arthur Penn talks about his experience as a student and later as a director during the Un-American Activities Committee's reign in the McCarthy Era. He discusses the struggle to decide between abiding by these ideas and working around them.The McCarthy era began about 1950 and lasted until about 1956, in which repression of communism and fear and paranoia of its spread took hold of the United States.

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