Rick called in Mark Hall-Paton of the Clark County Museum, who explained that the Soviet Union established the Comintern to “guide” the national Communist parties. Senators don’t serve on House committees and McCarthy, who died in 1957, never had anything to do with Hollywood.īack in 2014, a customer brought Harrison, the “Pawn Stars” host, a painting of Vietnamese Communist Ho Chi Minh, an agent of the Comintern. McCarthy didn’t hit stride until 1950, so Hollywood did not follow his lead.
It wasn’t until 1947 that the House Committee on Un-American Activities came snooping around. In fierce battles during 1945-46, the anti-Communist forces prevailed over the studio Stalinists. He also did great harm to the anti-Communist cause, then being led by liberal Democrats such as Hollywood union leaders Ronald Reagan and Roy Brewer. government ran deep, and for all his bluster, McCarthy didn’t know the half. As Allen Weinstein explained in Perjury, Alger Hiss was a Stalinist spy in the State Department and the Soviet Union wanted Hiss to head the United Nations. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius gave at the opening session of the United Nations. As Bruce Cook noted in Trumbo, Communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo wrote the speech that U.S. “The curiosity is not that there were undoubtedly many Reds that made government their vocation, but that the entire Communist Party was not on the federal payroll.” That was the late actor Robert Vaughn in Only Victims: A Study of Show Business Blacklisting, a book based on his PhD thesis at the University of Southern California.Ĭommunists also dominated many industrial and entertainment unions. Harrison is right that McCarthy specialized in accusation, but Rick’s “pawn-tification” has some problems.
Others followed McCarthy’s lead and focused on Hollywood, blacklisting many actors and directors so they could never work again. McCarthy had launched the “red scare,” Harrison explained, and in 1950 began accusing Americans of being Communists and putting them on a blacklist. Gold and Silver Pawn Shop proprietor Rick Harrison was dubious, but the sword prompted a solo segment about the late Wisconsin Republican. “Pawn Stars” is one of the History Channel’s enduring hits, and in a recent episode a customer brought in an old sword he claimed belonged to Sen. Single Issues of The Independent Review.Podcast: Independent Outlook / Conversations.International Economics and Development.
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