VT2006-26
Administrative Information
Running Time
30 minutes
Restrictions
Undetermined
Description
THE EAGLE AND THE BEAR Documentary about Washington, D.C. 1947 Congressional hearings investigating infiltration and influence of Communists in America. Various news film clips including Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech at Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri; Truman’s Congressional address proposing the Marshall Plan, and the Congressional hearing with FBI Director, J. Edgar Hoover. The formation of the House Committee on UnAmerican Activities. Later interviews with President Nixon, Lauren Bacall and the discussion of the Chambers/Hess hearings; the 1949 rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy to prominence. In June 1953 the Deportation Act was passed and the Rosenberg’s were executed as spies. In 1954 Joseph McCarthy was denounced by the Senate because of the David Shine scandal. This was received from Doug Thurman at the National Archives in May, 2002. It was found at NARA during the renovation. ¾-inch videotape
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