1947-1949 investigative committee of the Washington State Legislature
The Interim Committee on Un-American Activities or Joint Legislative Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, most commonly known as the Canwell Committee, (1947–1949) was a special investigative committee of the Washington State Legislature which in 1948 investigated the influence of the Communist Party USA in the state of Washington. Named after its chairman, Albert F. Canwell, the committee concentrated on communist influence in the Washington Commonwealth Federation and its relationship to the state Democratic Party, and the alleged Communist Party membership of faculty members at the University of Washington in Seattle.
The Canwell Committee is remembered as one of a number of state-level investigative committees patterned after the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) of the United States Congress. The committee ultimately published two printed volumes collecting the testimony of witnesses before it. The committee was terminated by the Washington legislature in 1949, following the electoral defeat of its chairman and several of its members in the 1948 elections.
Interim Committee on Un-American Activities or Joint Legislative Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, most commonly known as the Canwell Committee...
of the CanwellCommittee (1951), which was an attack on that state's version of the House Un-American Activities Committee; the state committee purged...
Committee on Un-American Activities, commonly known as the CanwellCommittee, legislative committee of Washington State in the United States, 1947–1949 Nassau...
Communists" and soon thereafter two investigations were started by the CanwellCommittee and the University. Professor of philosophy Herbert Phillips, professor...
a vehement Anti-Communist and testified before the Dies Committee (1939) and CanwellCommittee (1948). Joseph Zack Kornfeder was born on March 20, 1898...
Gerhart Eisler. In 1948, Johnson and George Hewitt testified before the CanwellCommittee in the State of Washington that University of Washington professor...
In 1948, Costigan provided testimony as a friendly witness to the CanwellCommittee of the Washington State Legislature, charged with investigating Communist...
philosophy. In the late 1940s, he was accused of being a Communist by the CanwellCommittee, although he was later exonerated. Rader was born on November 8, 1903...
internal investigation to expel any suspected communists. During the CanwellCommittee investigations, to determine whether members of the university faculty...
served other public purposes, for example as the site of the 1948 CanwellCommittee hearings in Seattle. The Streamline Moderne poured-concrete building...
1948, in Olympia, Washington, Rushmore testified before the CanwellCommittee, a state committee to investigate subversive activities at the University of...
seats. On January 27, 1948, Pettus disrupted the first witness of CanwellCommittee hearings into Communist infiltration in the State of Washington. The...
663, 665. ISBN 978-0-8488-0958-4. Kienholz, M. (21 September 2012). The Canwell Files: Murder, Arson and Intrigue in the Evergreen State. iUniverse. p...
"Identification of Van Lydegraf as state Communist Party Secretary during the Canwell Commission hearings". Depts.washington.edu. Retrieved 2012-08-22. "Biographical...
was chair of the Ways and Means Committee. In 1962, he brought a libel case against former legislator Albert F. Canwell and a number of other parties for...
Benger Church and Dauntsey Gate, in the County of Wilts. Allesley and Canwell Gate Turnpike Road (Warwickshire, Staffordshire) Act 1830 11 Geo. 4 & 1...
January 18, 1988. p. 11. Retrieved January 21, 2014. Kienholz, M (2012). The Canwell Files: Murder, Arson and Intrigue in the Evergreen State. iUniverse. p...
These were accompanied by electromagnetic deceptions codenamed Operation Canwell, using false radio traffic. All of these were planned to make the Axis...
1948/49. Berlin, 1998. S.54 Turner 1987, p. 29 Cherny 2008, pp. 129–130 Canwell 2008, p. 200 BBC Radio 4 programme "The Reunion, The Berlin Airlift," first...
anti-WCF offensive would achieve full flower in the 1948 Canwell Joint Legislative Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities of the Washington Legislature...
Americas, Europe and Asia, 1865-1915. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4506-6. Canwell, Diane (30 September 2004). Zulu Kings and their Armies. Pen and Sword...
Weidenfeld, 2009. ISBN 978-0-297-85218-6 Sutherland, Jonathan, and Diane Canwell. Vichy Air Force at War: The French Air Force that Fought the Allies in...
former chairman of the Washington State Un-American Activities Committee Albert F. Canwell, in a taped interview, accused Sally of having belonged to the...
the most decisive and complete naval victory in history," Sutherland & Canwell (2007). The Battle of Jutland. Pen & Sword. ISBN 978-1844155293. Moretz...
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