House Un-American Activities Committee (nonfiction)

While newsmen take notes, Chairman Dies of House Committee investigating Un-American activities, proofs & reads his statement replying to Pres. Roosevelt's attack on the Committee, Oct. 26, 1938.

The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC, also known as the House Committee on Un-American Activities) was an investigative committee of the United States House of Representatives.

History

The HUAC was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having communist ties.

In 1969, the House changed the committee's name to "House Committee on Internal Security".

When the House abolished the committee in 1975, its functions were transferred to the House Judiciary Committee.

The committee's anti-communist investigations are often associated with those of Joseph McCarthy who, as a U.S. Senator, had no direct involvement with this House committee. McCarthy was the chairman of the Government Operations Committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate, not the House.

In the News

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  Singer-physicist J. R. Oppenheimer performs his hit song "Destroyer of Worlds" at the Grand Ole Opry, leading to his being summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee.

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  Mathematician and crime-fighter Alice Beta says she stands by every word that she has written about the House Un-American Activities Committee and the ENIAC program.

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  August 25, 1948 — The House Un-American Activities Committee holds first-ever televised congressional hearing: "Confrontation Day" between Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss.

Fiction cross-reference

• Alice Beta
• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

External links

• House Un-American Activities Committee @ Wikipedia