Helen Whitney was an award-winning producer for the American Broadcasting Corporation.^[1] She produced a documentary called American Inquisition, which became the subject of a very famous case about First Amendment rights. The piece examined how McCarthyism had affected the small town of Fairmont, West Virginia.^[2] Victor Lasky, "the rightwing journalist" who rose to prominence in the McCarthy era, sued ABC over his depicition in the show.^[3] The central issue was whether Lasky had accused Mundel at an American Legion meeting in 1951 of being a Communist. Mundel was the head of the art department of Fairmont State College in Fairmont, West Virginia.^[4] In this environment, the question alone led to her termination and blacklisting. She later attempted suicide. Lasky maintained that the program inaccurately reported that he had called Mundel a Communist. 2002 identity of the ABC Circle logo, designed by Paul Rand in 1962. ... The first ten Amendments to the U.S. Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. ... Senator Joseph McCarthy McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the mid to late 1950s. ... Fairmont is a city in Marion County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 19,097 at the 2000 census. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... McCarthyism, named after Joseph McCarthy, was a period of intense anticommunism, also (popularly) known as the (second) Red Scare, which occurred in the United States from 1948 to about 1956 (or later), when the government of the United States was actively engaged in suppression of the Communist Party USA, its... 2002 identity of the ABC Circle logo, designed by Paul Rand in 1962. ... The American Legion is an organization of veterans of the United States armed forces who served in wartime. ... Fairmont State University is a public university located in Fairmont, West Virginia. ... Fairmont is a city in Marion County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 19,097 at the 2000 census. ...

See also

• Floyd Abrams
• List of prominent cases argued by Floyd Abrams
• Luella Mundel
• Victor Lasky

Floyd Abrams is a famous First Amendment lawyer. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ...

External links

References

1. ^ Floyd Abrams, Speaking Freely, Page 153.
2. ^ Floyd Abrams, Speaking Freely, published by Viking Press (2005), Page 153-58
3. ^ Geoffrey Stone, Supreme Court Tales From the Pleading Side of the Bench (book review), The New York Times, April 16, 2005, via Law.UChicago.edu.
4. ^ Speaking Freely, Page 154