29th October 1947: American film producer and director Herbert Biberman (1900 - 1971; left) and American screenwriter Samuel Ornitz (1890 - 1957), two members of the Hollywood Ten, talk after being cited for contempt for refusing to answer questions before the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee), Washington, DC. Biberman is holding a pipe and is placing his hand on Ornitz's arm. Both Biberman and Ornitz were blacklisted from Hollywood. (Photo by New York Times Co./Getty Images)
American Civil Liberties lawyer, Arthur Kinoy (1920 - 2003), is pulled from the House of Un-American Activities Committee hearing room in Washington, D.C. August 17, 1966. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Getty Images)
10th October 1968: American political activist and Yippie founder Abbie Hoffman (1936 - 1989) wearing dark sunglasses in a hallway before testifying for the House Committee on Un-American Activities hearing, Washington, D.C. Hoffman is surrounded by members of the media. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
28th August 1948: American State Department official, Alger Hiss, denying he was a member of a Communist cell before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington. (Photo by William Bond/Keystone/Getty Images)
Washington DC, USA, 2nd December 1953, Senator Joseph McCarthy asks a question as Roy Cohn hands him a photostat of one of the documents placed in evidence during the House of Un-American Activities Committee Hearings (Photo by Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)
