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Item Title
Should the House Committee on Un-American Activities Be Abolished?
Collection TitleFiring Line broadcast records
Guest
Faulk, John Henry
Host
Buckley, William F., Jr.
(1925-2008)
Date CreatedApril 21, 1966
Description
Mr. Faulk "is primarily known," WFB begins, "as a certified victim of an anti-Communist organization called Aware," which had brought him to the attention of the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Mr. Faulk had sued Aware and been awarded "the most colossal judgment in libel history"; he was now seeking the abolition of the committee. On this show, Mr. Faulk begins, in his down-home sort of voice, by quoting the then-Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan as having said that "the committee's program so closely parallels the program of the Ku Klux Klan that there is no distinguishable difference between them," and we're off to the races.
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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 50 minutes
FormatMoving Image
Medium
television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
Color
black and white
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram 006
Record Number80040.6
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Collection Guidehttps://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt6m3nc88c
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