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Title
Crowds wait to get into hearing room
Alternative Title
Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued
Circa 1952
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
Photo shows part of the crowd that waited to get into today's session of the Congressional Committee on Un-American activities. Note that many turned their backs and others hid their faces from the camera. Later, several spectators were ejected from the hearing room for cheering defiant witnesses.
Type
image
Format
1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier
00040986
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9391
CARL0000045330
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13636
Subject
United States.--Congress.--House
Hollywood Ten
Anti-communist movements--United States
Authors, American
Blacklisting of authors--United States
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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