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Esquire: McCarthyism 2.0? The Right's Battle with ACORN

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avanti1/05/2010 8:08:02 pm PST

re: #337 Kewalo

Exactly. I read somewhere that Lucille Ball was on one of those list and was worried sick about it coming out. Can you imagine life without “I Love Lucy?”

True, she was on the black list, but she got away.

” Lucille Ball had registered to vote as a communist in 1936 at the insistence of her grandfather, even though she was not a communist. When McCarthy’s blacklist came out, her name was on it. She appeared before the 1953 House Committee on Un-American Activities hearings. With much difficulty she was able to disprove the charge. Many others who were blacklisted had their lives and careers ruined “