This is a facsimile of Red Channels, first published in 1950 to facilitate the blacklist of entertainment industry professionals who were suspected of being communist sympathizers.

Published by Counterattack; the newsletter to combat communism.

How forty-one women—including Dorothy Parker, Gypsy Rose Lee, and Lena Horne—were forced out of American television and radio in the 1950s “Red Scare.” At the dawn of the Cold War era, forty-one women working in American radio and television were placed on a media blacklist and forced from their industry. The ostensible reason: so-called Communist influence. But in truth these women—among them Dorothy Parker, Lena Horne, and Gypsy Rose Lee—were, by nature of their diversity and ambition, a threat to the traditional portrayal of the American family on the airwaves. This book from Goldsmiths Press describes what American radio and television lost when these women were blacklisted, documenting their aspirations and achievements. Through original archival research and access to FBI blacklist documents, The Broadcast 41 details the blacklisted women's attempts in the 1930s and 1940s to depict America as diverse, complicated, and inclusive. The book tells a story about what happens when non-male, non-white perspectives are excluded from media industries, and it imagines what the new medium of television might have looked like had dissenting viewpoints not been eliminated at such a formative moment. The all-white, male-dominated Leave it to Beaver America about which conservative politicians wax nostalgic existed largely because of the forcible silencing of these forty-one women and others like them. For anyone concerned with the ways in which our cultural narrative is constructed, this book offers an urgent reminder of the myths we perpetuate when a select few dominate the airwaves.

Tracing the mayhem caused by a handful of anti-Communist watchdogs who in 1950 created the blacklist in radio and TV, David Everitt makes clear that the conflict over free speech was not a simplistic morality tale of persecutors and the persecuted, as routinely portrayed. The blacklisters, though excessive and destructive, were not deluded hunters of an imaginary menace. A Shadow of Red is a cautionary tale about civil liberties in a time of emergency, and a vivid example of the polarized political battle over who controls the media, a battle that continues to this day.

This is the HARDBACK version. Comments from Un-Blacklisted Celebrities "Things that they would think up had no value. The would print them and then the sponsors and the networks wouldn't hire you if your name was even mentioned in one of those rags. You were thoroughly blacklisted." Shirley Mitchel "They ruined a lot of lives. It was a terrible, terrible thing." George Fenneman "Counterattack people and many others were making it hard on nearly everyone." Ralph Bellamy "Writers had to use a front because they couldn't get hired. After all, they had families to support." Evelyn Keyes "We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, America dies." Edward R. Murrow Jason Hill, Author Life for Jason Hill has always been interesting. Twenty years a commercial pilot, including movies . . . twenty-five years in recording and radio. His long time mentor was Norman Corwin, who finally convinced him to write. Mr. Hill's published and upcoming works include Life in the Past Lane-Volumes One, Two & Three: and some poetry. He lives in the Chicago area.