Just Who’s Distorting What?

During the past six months, the battle over America’s internal security program has found its sharpest focus since the passing of Senator Joe McCarthy. Since the fall of 1960, the emotional energies of Liberals and determined anti-Communists alike have been poured into a bitter controversy over a documentary film entitled Operation Abolition.

Operation Abolition portrays a student demonstration against the House Committee on Un-American Activities in San Francisco, last May 12, 13 and 14. It shows student protests outside San Francisco’s City Hall; disruptive tactics by identified Communists in the hearing room and, finally, a serio-comic tableau in which city police remove demonstrating students from the premises, spraying them with fire hoses and sliding them down a long marble stairway.

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During the past six months, the battle over America’s internal security program has found its sharpest focus since the passing of Senator Joe McCarthy. Since the fall of 1960, the emotional energies of Liberals and determined anti-Communists alike have been poured into a bitter controversy over a documentary film entitled Operation Abolition.

Operation Abolition portrays a student demonstration against the House Committee on Un-American Activities in San Francisco, last May 12, 13 and 14. It shows student protests outside San Francisco’s City Hall; disruptive tactics by identified Communists in the hearing room and, finally, a serio-comic tableau in which city police remove demonstrating students from the premises, spraying them with fire hoses and sliding them down a long marble stairway.