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The Hollywood blacklist
A list of radicals in Hollywood and the entertainment industry was published by US anti-communists more than 60 years ago.
The list was known as Red Channels and people whose names were on it found their careers in jeopardy.
Walter Bernstein was a young screenwriter at the time.
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