This photograph documents the beginnings of the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC). Established as a select committee in 1938, it was chaired by Martin Dies and better known initially as the Dies Committee. Its first meeting in the Longworth House Office Building investigated domestic fascist groups. Dies, seated in the center of the seven-man group, eventually focused the committee’s work on the threat of communist infiltration into the mid-1940s.
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