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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Caballero, Raymond (1942-....)
Titre(s) : McCarthyism vs. Clinton Jencks [Texte imprimé] / Raymond Caballero ; foreword by Michael E. Tigar
Publication : Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xi-306 p.) : ill. ; 23 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"For twenty years after World War II, the United States was in the grips of its second
and most oppressive red scare. The hysteria was driven by conflating American Communists
with the real Soviet threat. The anticommunist movement was named after Senator Joseph
R. McCarthy, but its true dominant personality was FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, who
promoted and implemented its repressive policies and laws. The national fear over
communism generated such anxiety that Communist Party members and many left-wing Americans
lost the laws' protections. Thousands lost their jobs, careers, and reputations in
the hysteria, though they had committed no crime and were not disloyal to the United
States. Among those individuals who experienced more of anticommunism's varied repressive
measures than anyone else was Clinton Jencks. Jencks, a decorated war hero, adopted
as his own the Mexican American fight for equal rights in New Mexico's mining industry.
In 1950 he led a local of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers
in the famed Empire Zinc strike--memorialized in the blacklisted 1954 film Salt of
the earth--in which wives and mothers replaced strikers on the picket line after an
injunction barred the miners themselves. But three years after the strike, Jencks
was arrested and charged with falsely denying that he was a Communist and was sentenced
to five years in prison. In Jencks v. United States (1957), the Supreme Court overturned
his conviction in a landmark decision that mandated providing to an accused person
previously hidden witness statements, thereby making cross-examination truly effective.
[This book] reveals for the first time that the FBI and the prosecution knew all along
that Clinton Jencks was innocent. Jencks's case typified the era, exposing the injustice
that many suffered at the hands of McCarthyism. The tale of Jencks's quest for justice
provides a fresh glimpse into the McCarthy era's oppression, which irrevocably damaged
the lives, careers, and reputations of thousands of Americans."
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Autre forme du titre : McCarthyism versus Clinton Jencks
Sujet(s) : Jencks, Clinton E. (1918-2005)
Maccarthysme
Répression politique -- États-Unis -- 1945-1970
Grèves et lock-out -- Nouveau-Mexique (États-Unis) -- 1945-1970
Mineurs (ouvriers) -- Syndicats -- Nouveau-Mexique (États-Unis) -- 1945-1970
Indice(s) Dewey : 345.730 231 (23e éd.) = Infractions politiques (droit pénal) - Etats-Unis
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780806163970. - ISBN 0806163976
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb474569123
Notice n° :
FRBNF47456912
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Clinton Edward Jencks ; Grant County, New Mexico ; Red scares and anticommunism ; Clinton Jencks and local 890, 1947-1950 ; Empire zinc strike ; Salt of the earth ; United States v. Clinton E. Jencks ; The Jencks trial personalities ; Clinton Jencks on trial ; False witness : Matusow's confessional ; Questionable witnesses and the motion for new trial ; The court of appeals ; The supreme court ; FBI files and the reverend J.W. Ford ; FBI files and Harvey Marshall Matusow ; Clinton Jencks after trail ; Some observations
