Terry Pettus
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Terry Pettus was a newspaper reporter and activist from Seattle, Washington.
Pettus c. 1944
Pete Seeger (here, in 1955) may have learned the term "hootenanny" from Pettus when he and Woody Guthrie passed through Seattle in the late 1930s
Terry Pettus Park
Canwell Committee
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The Interim Committee on Un-American Activities or Joint Legislative Fact-Finding Committee on Un-American Activities, most commonly known as the Canwell Committee, was a special investigative committ
Terry Pettus
…As a journalist, he campaigned against exclusionary covenants in housing. On January 27, 1948, Pettus disrupted the first witness of Canwell Committee hearings into Communist infiltration in the State of Washington. The witness was Louis F. Budenz, managing editor of the Communist Party's official…
Coverage of the 1919 general strike in the Seattle Union Record
Representative Albert F. Canwell c. 1947
Howard Rushmore (here, in 1957) named Alger Hiss as a Soviet mole in mid-July 1948, less than three weeks before Whittaker Chambers would testify before HUAC on 3 August 1948