ades they were informing about, so they usually got punishments like blacklisting. One of the most famous cases of informers dealt with one of the best directors of his day, Elia Kazan. It was brought to HUACs attention that Kazan used to be a member of the party and that they would imprison him if he named other names in Hollywood. This brilliant director betrayed many friends and testified and his career after On the Waterfront never really recovered because of all the enemies he made saving his own behind. Whitfield argues for Kazan that he figured that unlike his friend Arthur Miller who was imprisoned for the same situation, Kazan couldnt direct movies in jail like Miller could write in jail. Miller went on to write a brilliant satire about his and all of the other witch hunts for communists that were occurring called The Crucible. Weak and underhanded cases like these eventually killed off HUAC in the early sixties. After Alger Hiss they never found another traitor. Like McCarthy people started ignoring them and then began to speak out about how they really felt about them. Whitfield explains how in 1959 the FBI even told reporters how they had surveillance on the group since its induction because it was so untrustworthy. Whitfeild feels that an even bigger blow then this to the culture of the cold war was when Bobby Kennedy said of McCarthy around this time that he was wrong about ever feeling that McCarthy and HUAC had done anything for internal security. When we think of the culture of the this time, the films, television and media of the time definitely come into our thoughts. Television was just in its infancy, but was a huge impact on our culture that still exists. Some of the most classic films ever made came out of the era known as the cold war, and the media also made its mark on our culture during this time, according to Whitfield. Whitfield feels that Hollywood was thrust into the cold war back in 1947 when HUAC came to...
