The Un-American Act: Hollywood's Contempt Citation1947-11-17unknownhttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NKC/1.0/enghttp://congressarchives.org/record/CAC_CC_014_3.2_74_15_0034The document is a letter from Louis H. Waldeck to Helen Gahagan Douglas urging her to vote against contempt citations for Hollywood witnesses in the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Waldeck believes the procedures used by the committee are a violation of the Constitution and that upholding the citations would set a dangerous precedent for persecution based on political beliefs. He also criticizes the committee's actions as inciting fascist elements in the country and calls for the committee to be abolished.