... did not confess to witchery the person would be hanged. The trials allowed people in the town to speak against their neighbors, which normally were not tolerated. In 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) responded to charges that Hollywood was riddled with communists; it investigated people in the movie industry. A group of film directors and writers, known as the Hollywood Ten, refused to answer HUAC ... 's questions and went to jail. They were blacklisted - denied work in the film industry - and their careers were destroyed. Just to be suspected of being a communist...

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