1:33:01
How many have you worked with?
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What is your association with them?
1:33:06
What are their names? A simple question.
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CHAIRMAN: Will the Congressman yield?
VELDE: Yes.
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Is Ruth Merrill...
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...a member of the Communist Party?
1:33:15
DAVID: My wife?
CHAIRMAN: You mean your ex-wife?
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Here she is at the ''Ban the Bomb'' bash
that you all threw.
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Clearly mocking our government.
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Should a person like this be allowed
to teach impressionable children?
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Children have the right to discuss
government in school.
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She must be barred from influencing
young minds.
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And I will see to it
that legislation is adopted...
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...requiring teachers to take a loyalty oath.
1:33:44
To prevent people like her from teaching!
1:33:47
DAVID: She doesn't want them killed
by atomic bombs!
1:33:50
She's disloyal!
1:33:52
By teaching respect for the Constitution?
1:33:54
Is Ruth Merrill now or has she ever been
a Communist? Yes or no?
1:33:58
No. Never. Absolutely, categorically, no.
1:34:02
What about Dorothy Nolan?
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CHAIRMAN: Was she ever a Communist?
DAVID: She's dead.
1:34:07
CHAIRMAN: That's not what I asked.
1:34:09
CHAIRMAN: Now answer these questions.
1:34:11
Was Dorothy Nolan a Communist? Yes or no?
1:34:15
Don't you have any decency?
1:34:17
CHAIRMAN: Unfortunately...
1:34:19
...Dorothy Nolan was a known drunk,
an unfit parent...
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...and had been named as a Communist.
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She was a good mother.
You're responsible for her death!
1:34:30
She has been named as a Communist!
1:34:32
She was falsely accused.
She was out of work.
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She lost her son because of this Committee!
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She killed herself.
The Communists twisted her mind.
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In the name of ridding the world
of Communism, you destroyed her!
1:34:45
Have you no shame? She's dead!
1:34:48
I'm tired of acting...
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...as though we're playing some little game!
1:34:53
CHAIRMAN: This Committee
and its activities...
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...may very well determine the future
of this great country!
1:34:59
CHAIRMAN: One Communist in America is
one too many, I say!