Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television was a anti-communist pamphlet published in the United States. The pamphlet was written by Theodore Kirkpatrick, a former FBI agent and Vincent Harnett, a television producer and published the right-wing journal Counterattack on June 22, 1950.
The pamphlet was released three years after the House Un-American Activities Committee began investigating communist influence in the entertainment industry. The pamphlet listed 151 people in entertainment who was accused of being a member of subversive and communist organizations. Sources were also cited in the pamphlet. The sources ranged from articles from newspapers, Daily Worker, and other sources.
People listed on the pamphlet were blacklisted until they appeared before the House of Un-American Activities Committee.
The following are some of the names that appeared in the pamphlet.
- Ralph Bell
- Leonard Bernard
- Walter Bernstein
- Marc Blitzstein
- Joseph Bromberg
- Lee J. Cobb
- Aaron Copland
- Norman Corwin
- Howard Da Silva
- Roger De Koven
- Dean Dixon
- John Garfield
- Will Geer
- Jack Gilford
- Ruth Gordon
- Lloyd Gough
- Dashiell Hammett
- Yip Harburg
- Lillian Hellman
- Roderick B. Holmgren
- Lena Horne
- Langston Hughes
- Charles Irving
- Burl Ives
- Sam Jaffe (actor)
- Arthur Laurents
- Gypsy Rose Lee
- Madeline Lee
- Ray Lev
- Philip Loeb
- Joseph Losey
- Burgess Meredith
- Ben Myers
- Arthur Miller
- Henry Morgan (entertainer)
- Zero Mostel
- Dorothy Parker
- Arnold Perl
- Ann Revere
- Edward G. Robinson
- William N. Robson
- Pete Seeger
- Lisa Sergio
- Irwin Shaw
- Robert Lewis Shayon
- Ann Shepherd
- William L. Shirer
- Howard K. Smith
- Gale Sondergaard
- Louis Untermeyer
- Orson Welles
- Josh White
External Links
website that includes from pages from the pamphlet
