House Un-American Activities Committee

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[Another item that should be remembered despite not having aviation relevance; 80 years ago today] '• The House Un-American Activities Committee announces that it will hold hearings “the extent to which Communist and Communist sympathizers have been able to obtain employment in the federal government.” The Committee will decline to investigate the Ku Klux Klan, prompting white supremacist Democratic Congressman John Rankin of Mississippi to quip, “The KKK is an old American institution.” '