Hollywood Ten and Crucibal

In 1947 the House Un-American Activities Committee, or HUAC, started a trial and investigation of communism in the Hollywood motion picture industry. The Committee, including Chairman J. Parnell Thomas a young Congressman from California, and Richard M. Nixon tried many celebrities asking them question about what they knew about communism and who they knew that were involved. Here is a quote from the trial. SPOKESMAN: “Do you recall the names of any of the actors in …

…he really related to John Proctor when he wrote this book because you can see many similarities between them. You can really tell that a lot of people in both times were very scared of what was happening because of the accusing that was going on, nobody wanted to be accused so they would put the blame on others. This assignment was interesting to see how the two were so closely related to each other.