Hollywood screenwriter Dalton Trumbo testifies before the HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee) in 1947. Actor Robert Taylor names Howard da Silva, Lester Cole. Hollywood Ten. Ring Lardner Jr. testifies before the House UnAmerican Activities Committee. HUAC member questions Lardner "Are you now or have you ever been a communist?" Lardner refuses to answer and is forced to leave the hearing. Lardner questioned about communists members of the Screenwriters Guild (WGA). "You're trying to discredit the Screenwriters Guild through me, and the Motion Picture Industry through the Screenwriters Guild and..." Newspaper headlines. CU Gary Cooper testifies at HUAC congressional (House Un-American Activities Committee) session Cooper says he doesn't like Communism (speaks) Crowd, press Women knit Reporters (repeat) CU Ronald Reagan testifies, says no Communist ever used films for ideology, stands up for movie industry Chairman raps gavel Herbert Biberman testifies, is asked whether he is a Communist, defies committee, criticizes committee's purpose, refuses to cooperate Photographers Hostile witness, don't know who (Hollywood 10 member) CU Congressman Richard Nixon Committee Alger Hiss sworn in Hiss speaks, no sound Whittaker Chambers testifies, accuses Hiss, speaks CU Hiss. House Un-American Activities Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas questions screenwriter John Howard Lawson. Over the shoulder shot, Thomas seen banging the gavel "Are you a member of the Communist Party? Or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" Lawson replies, "It's unfortunate and tragic that I have to teach this committee the basic principles of Americanism." Thomas: "That's not the question. That's not the question. The question is, have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" Lawson: "I am framing my answer in the only way in which any American citizen can frame his answer to--" Thomas: "Then you deny it?" Lawson: "-a question that invades his...