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Title: Committee opens Communist infiltration hearing
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1953
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: Photograph was edited for publication purposes.
Hearing room in the Federal Building is crowded as the House Committee on Un-American Activities opened a new Communist infiltration hearing, with first day spotlight on Hollywood. Committee Chairman Harold Velde (arrow) and other committeemen are seated before the American flag. Reporters, news photographers and spectators fill the room. KECA-TV camera equipment catches all the action. The station and Herald-Express are co-operating in covering the hearing. Photograph dated: March 23, 1953.
Type: Image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00041635
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 9391; HE-001-869 4x5
CARL0000045811
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/13224
Subject: United States Court House and Post Office (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Communist Party of America
United States.--Congress.--House
KECA (Radio station : Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express (Firm)
Communists--United States
American newspapers
Downtown Los Angeles (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Los Angeles Evening Herald Express photographs

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