Pleading the Fifth: Lillian Hellman and the HUAC Investigation of Hollywood

Pleading the Fifth: Lillian Hellman and the HUAC Investigation of Hollywood

  1. Social Education
  2. Social Education November/December 2016
  3. Pleading the Fifth: Lillian Hellman and the HUAC Investigation of Hollywood

Authors:

Christine Blackerby

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Social Education November/December 2016

Playwright Lillian Hellman's featured letter to the House Un-American Activities Committee as it investigated Hollywood during the Cold War can launch an interesting lesson on the protections of the Fifth Amendment.