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The New Blacklist: A Book Excerpt

November 1, 2007 - 12:45 am
Tony Kahn
2007-11-02 06:12:18

Roger, the graphic at the head of your piece came from a docudrama I did for NPR called “Blacklisted,” a six part series on my family’s 15 years experience under the Hollywood Blacklist. My father, Gordon Kahn, was one of the so-called “Hollywood Nineteen,” and, in my humble opinion, a very fine writer.

If anyone is interested in hearing what the day-to-day experience of that period of fear was like, I invite them to listen to the show at www.wgbh.org/blacklisted. (Studs Terkel, among others, called it “one of the finest radio programs I’ve ever heard.”