Universal Newsreel 20-85 Oct. 23, 1947

JFK, J. Edgar Hoover, RFK in 1961, from Abbie Rowe

Bomb Shelter, from Time, July 1959

Fear of Russia

• Iron Curtain required demonstrations of American power
• Elizabeth Bentley, HUAC revealed spies
• NSC-68 "coercion" under Acheson
• USIA propaganda
• SAGE air defense

Fear of War

• Korean War ended in stalemate
• Taiwan, Quemoy, Matsu, Berlin - maps

Fear of Communism

• HUAC hearings 1947
• McCarthyism and Loyalty tests

Fear of Liberalism

• Rise of the Republican Right
• Are We Winning Mommy documentary of 1984 was critical of the anti-Communist hysteria

Fear of the Bomb

• "Massive Retaliation" in the Eisenhower Era

Fear of Crime

• Kefauver Hearings on TV 1951

Fear of the Unknown

• UFOs

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