Thirteenth Report of the Senate Fact-Finding Subcommittee on Un-American Activities--California

cdlib.org archives ^ | 1965 | California Legislature

[Little Bill]

I remember a lot of these people and Orgs. from when I was a kid in Boston. The folk music scene was littered with them

You would go to a concert at the Hatch shell and the YSA, Socalists Workers, and the DuBois people would be working the crowd.

[DPB101]

I remember the SDS in the late 1960s. We all thought they didn't mean it and if they did, they wouldn't get far. Little did we know. The full transcript is worse than the excerpts indicate. The report from 1960 is good too. They saw the protests of 1964 coming in no uncertain language. What is amazing is how weak the establishment was. The New Left simply walked in and took it over.

[liberalnot]

i still hold some anger towards them.

i feel that they ruined the quality of my life and the quality of life in this country.

one of my graduate school girlfriends was famous for saying "bourgeoise". every other word out of her mouth was bourgeoise. she said the communists taking over nicaragua were "good communists", as we were translating homer. i couldn't believe it at the time.

i find the whole marxist and socialist idea, s-t-u-p-i-d.

it's stupid because they propose to be an alternative to capitalism, but they don't even know what capitalism >>is<<.

how, then, would you propose an alternative when you can't even describe your enemy?

[annyokie]

Thanks for the ping!

[DPB101]

i still hold some anger towards them.

Same here. I never bought into any of it but was affected by the constant negativity just at the age when I should have been optimistic and building for the future. The doom and gloom the left spread in the 1970s was terrible. Know it affected more people than me. Remember listening to Reagan's inaugural address in 1980 when driving through the Mojave desert and yelling "YES!...We can do whatever we set our minds to do!"

[liberalnot]

yes, that's right.

when a graduate student told me that i should not be seen with ayn rand's "the new intellectual" in the department, i knew that i was on to something. (imagine that, at a university and you can't read

then, reagan came.

and, then rush limbaugh, who made a $100 million laughing at them.

the dems still don't get it--they are funny.

and their ideas destructive.

[Just mythoughts]

There are times in which it seems that this is a genetics thing, some are born with a "leftist" brain, true believers.

I expect that Hillary's shrill with the dragon voice, of "not questioning their patriotism", which their money boy Terry of DNC use yet again this weekend calling, "McCarthism" will be heard again and again this campaign season.

"How weak the establishment was", might be said that a full force take over ensued once McCarthy was discredited and McCarthy was raised to the "evil" of Hitler.

This bunch in the 60's could be called the first stage of terrorism of the modern era.

[DaughterOfAnIwoJimaVet]

Bump for a later (well, earlier, actually - I'm going to sleep!) read - thanks for posting this.

[DPB101]

Trivia concerning Hillary's mentor, Communist lawyer Robert Treuhaft:

One of Treuhaft's best friends in the Communist Party was Al Bernstein--the father of Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein.

Hillary worked for the House panel which investigated Watergate.

When he was a district attorney deputy in CA, Ed Meese, in person, ordered the arrest of Truehaft for his part in the take over of a building at the University of Berkeley.

In the 1960s, Truehaft organized some sort of Funeral association in the Bay area. To publicize it, he appeared on a popular San Francisco TV show. The host of the show?

Casper Weinberger (who was considered a liberal at the time).

Source: Truehaft

[Bonaparte]

"Wofsy continued to work at the San Diego campus of the university until July of 1964, when he applied for a position on the Berkeley campus as an Associate Professor of Biology at a salary of $10,600 per year. He arrived at Berkeley in September of 1964, just in time for the commencement of the demonstrations."

Wow, what a koinkadink. Just like all those others.

Great post, DPB, as always.

[Bonaparte]

"In the 1960s, Truehaft organized some sort of Funeral association in the Bay area."Originally the East Bay Memorial Association, a cooperative founded (I believe) in 1954 and later re-named Bay Area Funeral Society. This was followed by Mitford's book, "American Way of Death." They took an unusual interest in death.

[NormsRevenge]

Sounds like an orchestrated effort to subvert the Constitution and steal our sovereignty.. And it's still going on Today.

Excellent piece. Thanks!

[hedgetrimmer]

Originally the East Bay Memorial Association, a cooperative founded (I believe) in 1954 and later re-named Bay Area Funeral Society. This was followed by Mitford's book, "American Way of Death." They took an unusual interest in death.

Is this the reason "day of the dead" is "celebrated" in California high schools today?

[liberalnot]

that's an e-x-c-e-l-l-e-n-t find!

it explains several things:

1. i always wondered how woodward and bernstein rose so fast at the wawa post. woodward has a mysterious, fast rise. even his ex-wife couldn't believe how fast he got from point a to point b--he was a communications officer in the u.s. navy who at the end of his tenure, was delivering the most secret u.s. intelligence verbally from the pentagon to the president of the united states. stuff that's not committed to paper, it's so secret.

and then, bingo! he's applying to the wawa post as a reporter--NO previous experience. so they tell him to go get some experience, and he does--6 months over at the suburban potomac whatever paper, a throwaway, and then he's back! at one of the most premier newspapers in the world, a very competitive place to work in.

this is in:

Silent Coup: The Removal of a President
by Len Colodny, et al

Out of Print--Limited Availability
Used & new from $0.68

2. having lived and worked in washington d.c., during the reagan presidency, and reading the wawa post daily, i got the idea that there was more to the love-hate relationship between journalists and reagan.

your find certainly illuminates personal antagonisms between one of reagan's long time friends, business associates, and their opposition--the communist party.

[DPB101]

Liberal journalists have recieved a pass. The assumption is, yes they may have favored the Soviet Union, they may support marxists today, but they are idealists. I don't know why that should be seem as their motive. Considering the intensity of Soviet infilitration of America, it is just as likely they were on the payroll of or being blackmailed by the Soviets. We know Duranty and John Reed were. I.F. Stone, Eric Alterman's mentor, is now reported to have been a KGB asset (liberals deny this).

Check out this Soviet 1946 memo to Mikhail Andreevich Suslov. Ben Goldberg, an associate of Einstein, a writer for the Toronto Star, the Saint Louis Dispatch, the New York Post Today, and the New Republic was on an extended visit to the USSR. The memo says his dispatches were "extremely friendly toward the Soviet Union." While in Moscow, Goldberg was working on a book titled "England, the Opponent of Peace." Susov was a powerful figure in the USSR. He , Stalin and Kaganovich worked together during the purges. He was a member of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet and buried next to Stalin in the Kremlin wall. That Goldberg came to Susvov's attention shows the interest Soviets took in American journalists. If Goldberg wasn't on the Soviet payroll, he could have been had he asked.

New York Times reporter Herbert Matthews is another case. This 1960 Senate hearing transcript shows , I believe, he was working with people in the State Department to see that Castro became the leader of Cuba.

How many more worked for the Soviets? How many worked for Mao, the Sandinistas and Saddam?

Anyone running agents against America would want operatives in the highest media positions. Yet all the ones we know of worked before Viet Nam. And it has been the Viet Nam crop of journalists which have been the most marxism class in American history. Was it simply disillusionment with Viet Nam? Or were they recruited or blackmailed during Nam?

[Bonaparte]

Is this the reason "day of the dead" is "celebrated" in California high schools today?

No. Day of the dead is celebrated in California because it is now effectively a province of Mexico.

[MEG33]

Interesting..thanks.They are still working here..they grew up to be professors and jounalists.

[weegee]

I went to college in Boston in the 1980s and the Socialist Workers were regularly working the crowd waiting for one of the Green Line T subways underground (selling the paper).

[hedgetrimmer]

Can I sue my school because they are promoting the aztec religion?