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AL a Robert K. Dornan ‘how - continved (discussion of tris story followed) Melte belated charges and condition under which this rrivate was executed...indicatine them as vroper..whie cbviously surorised Dornan. 4 Dornan then asks if iialtz thinks there were words he did not write out” of feor after the black listing...from this vressure..21s0 asked about other writers in this same reenrd, oe Malte: It didn't affect me, but it affected all those who continued ; to write in the industry..of covrse,.. faldaos ca - . . Poke. Those who ware bluck listed were in that sense free. We were economicelly black jJisted...but we were politically free... Dorman: JRsn-h-n Vahn: Yes Dornen: Would vott have been binck listed Bob for sneaking out the way vou have on the Vietnam war..were there frinze black lists? Vakn: Now? Dornan: If you were ten yeers younser..at that time... Vahn: I don't ¢hink so...I wouldn't heave hed anythine to do with the Communist Perty..which is what they,the committee seemed to be trying to cet at..ferret them out...¢et ovt of the business..by doing that they caught a lot of innocent neonle who had nothing to do with the Communist Party...and lost their livdihood also... wetia: You krow I think you would have been bleck-licted because with- out any ansociation e£ with the Communist Farty, vou have teen stenadily an ovsorent of the Vicinom wer..in the sane atmosvhsre at that time, I can think of 2 men who's politicel hero wes Voodroy Vilson..sand ke was ,ray listed...which was another term...he just couldn't cet work... Dorrean asks shout a douhle bleck list sand a #rev list and thi s is discuss)sd,.,!altz stated that some of those who didn't set work was simply because they were not ood writers or actors and thrt their enreers would have been over snyweyv...to which Vahn eereed, Dornen esks if liberel retworts mirht heve the some kind of 2 black- list seninst conservatives todey...remarking about how there ere no conservatives on ary network,...oniy one, Bill Buckley.. Vehn seid he mifht be right, thet he Gidn't think there was 2 list, mrt it richt be a "state of wind" tyne of blacklisting... Dornan macde some remarks about the netsvorrs then noting tire had ran out, asked both suests if they would retyvrn another time..to which they seid ves,.Dornan said he would like to have a nrorram erd hve the 10 unfriendly witnessess as svests along with those who testified.. Then acein svoke af the ereetest drama coneh in this city..seying they (evuests) would know who be meant..and those who didn't know (vievers wovldrn't motter..Asked if the blecklist was a state of mind....? Malts said there wes a list, alist of ell the neople wre appeared be~ fore the cormmittesc and wouldn't coorsrate...that the networks tedav gieht he ine frome of mind thet world meke them hires neovle left of center, but thet is different then saying a man cannot work becaucre of is volitice] views or surnposed views, The aprendix of the book was disenrssed end Mertin Berkeley, 2 writer of westerns who nened over A hunsred reovie wee tre tarcet of the Cloring rennirzs,