Ben Gilbert: belief

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…Yeah. So Ben, you mentioned Walt's sort of anti-communist streak that comes out of this. Yeah, for the rest of his life, he would blame all of this on communist influences in Hollywood. He would actually testify after World War II in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, you know, HUAC, as a friendly witness corroborating communist infiltration in Hollywood. He named names of people who he said were communists based on things he had heard about them, like no even proof. And you've got like a major figurehead of a big US corporation testifying. There's all this video of it, of him saying, "I believe so-and-so is a communist. " Yeah, and of course this would lead to the famous Hollywood blacklist and all the terrible stuff that comes out of that. One thing later sort of by association with this, people would accuse Walt of being anti-Semitic since much of the communist movement in the US and especially in Hollywood was in the Jewish community. Gabler investigates this pretty thoroughly in his book and concludes that there's not any evidence that Walt ever really was anti-Semitic.…

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