Committee on Unamerican Activities

The first film by a private citizen which criticizes a US government committee includes 1930s footage of House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) Chairman Martin Dies (D) of Texas attacking "subversives" in labor unions; the 1947 Hollywood Witch Hunts; the Cold War blacklistings; & the 1960 San Francisco hearings where police turned fire hoses on student protestors inside the City Hall. Among the HUAC's critics shown: Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt & Harry S. Truman, civil rights leader Reverend Wyatt T. Walker, Congressmen James Roosevelt & Phillip Burton, & Frank Wilkinson... FOIA acquired files reveal the HUAC, in violation of the First Amendment, investigated Robert Carl Cohen for making this film.
1977: COMMITTEE ON UNAMERICAN ACTIVITIES Certified by the US Information Agency (USIA) as being of an "International Educational Character."