AMERICAN MASTERS: Trumbo | HUAC Testimony (Dalton Trumbo)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/dalton-trumbo/introduction-t... Footage from Dalton Trumbos October 28th, 1947 appearance before the House Un-American Activities Committee. AMERICAN MASTERS: TRUMBO airs Wednesday, September 2, 2009 at 8pm EST on PBS.

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[6Nicad6emus6]

Now I know what the witch hunts throughout history looked like.

[TwoCows23]

@megamanxu Sweden is socialist. They're not a dictatorship.

[JustsDL]

refuse to testify but to rebut by asking questions to the investigators

[Ranillon]

Wow -- a number of the comments here make it clear that we haven't properly learned the lessons of this cruely outrageous witch hunt. Too bad as given the extreme black-and-white poltical attitudes of the Far Right in the US nowadays those lessons are more timely than ever.

[aquagrl63]

Oh, for god's sake what was the whole point of this? Someone who was briefly involved in the Communist party when they were 20 was a traitor. God, people are cruel. Or stupid. Or both.

[RuflessRecords]

@TwoCows23 they were all communist, communists like you say those evil regimes weren't communist to try to spare your precious religion from all its crimes in practice.

These countries collectived and nationalized everything and preached Karl Marx like gospel. The violence is endemic to all Communist regimes due to the innate, seething hatred of all people who subscribe to the philosophy and the fact that others will not willingly give up their property and businesses, and must be forced.

[RuflessRecords]

Was he a communist, yes, and a Joseph Stalin acolyte in addition to being a member of CPUSA. Claimed to have written a speech for our Sec of State who gave it in 1945 at the opening of the original United Nations Conference on International Organization; the Secretary General of the Conference was fellow Stalinist, and communist agent Alger Hiss.

This is where Hollywood got its constant anti-business drumbeat, from having Stalinists write its touching scripts.

[artemisfowl95]

My goodness, such talk.....Is there any such person here who is inspired by this fiery, witty man? He is a writer, mind you, and as writers, we are destined to be ourselves and nothing more. I myself am a writer, and in this community, we find him to be a hero amongst us, communist or not. It does not matter the party of a writer; merely the fact that we affected the world, or were simply noticed in it is enough. This man was blacklisted, jailed, and yet he still wrote, against his own stature.

[jvarela965]

Trumbo followed the Soviet line all through the Nazi-Soviet pact. Before Barbarossa when the Party was pushing for the U.S. not to enter the war Trumbo as a member of every isolationist and pro Peace organization one can imagine. Thank You and RIP Roy Brewer, Ronald Reagan and Robert Taylor.

[Stronghurst]

Trumbo asked that his own book -- "Johnny Got His Gun" -- be pulled from the shelves and censored after Germany invaded the USSR in 1941 because it was an anti-war book and Trumbo now supported the war. In other words, he towed the communist party line. During WWII Trumbo offered to identify to the FBI people in Hollywood who expressed anti-war sentiments. Trumbo also participated in the informal blacklist that Hollywood communists used against their enemies.

He was a dirtbag.