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Nothing new• A. Mitchell Palmer
• Mass Hysteria– Terrorist attacks
(Wall St.)– Deportations
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
• Bio
• Wheeling Speech
• Primary sources
-April 1949-"You read books, eh?"
• Hundreds of elementary and high school teachers lost their jobs
• Some individuals compiled and circulated their own blacklists.
• The motives of some self-serving or vindictive accusers were summed up by Herb Block in a phrase: "If you can't crush the commies, you can nail a neighbor."
• Entertainment Industry– Hollywood Ten
-Even W. Disney had to appear before HUAC.
-The ten men were convicted of contempt. Their appeals of course were denied, all served prison terms of up to one year.