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Originally Posted by Tyneras
How about a timeline where Joseph McCarthy died in WW2, and thus his witch hunts for communists never started, and Hollywood was never forced under the shadow of the House of Unamerican Activities? Or am I overestimating his impact on the film industry?
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Given that Senator McCarthy's big bugaboo was Communist sympathizers in
government and he obviously wasn't part of the House Unamerican Activities Committee, you probably are. Looking at the dates in Wikipedia, it appears that HUAC's scrutiny of Hollywood predates his rise to prominence (though not his election to the Senate). If anything, McCarthy's fall probably hastened the demise of HUAC.