Reply #3: I remember the trial hearings and newspaper accounts like it was yesterday

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The McCarthyism and anti-communist hysteria and paranoia just can't be comprehended by the youth of this age today.

I was just getting out of the Army and the Korea conflict had come to a conclusion. The John Birch Society was going full blast. Most unions were looked down upon with scorn and suspicion of being communist controlled.

I remember having to sign papers when I was hired by an employer that stated I was not a member of the communist party, which was normal procedure in those days.

All hell broke loose during the hippy days of the sixties. Justifiable so! The stereo type had been pierced, and big changes were indeed coming. The rest is history. In reality nothing has changed except that the police and our government have become more powerful, a hell of a lot more sneaky. Things are just as bad and maybe worse, in my humble opinion.