:01:25
TAVENNER: Mr. Nolan, you said we could
count on your loyalty.
:01:28
You didn't say you were coming
to defend the Communist Party.
:01:33
CHAIRMAN: We know they're out there, but
I'll be damned if I know how to find them.
:01:39
It'd be a lot easier on everybody...
:01:41
...if you all wore some identification,
like a pin or a bumper sticker.
:01:46
Then we wouldn't have to go through this.
:01:49
Make it a lot easier on everybody, wouldn't it?
:01:52
I beg of you...
:01:54
...to please don't make me do this.
:01:58
Don't make me crawl through the mud.
:02:05
You know who they are.
:02:11
They're my friends.
:02:12
CHAIRMAN: They are Communists.
Why do you feel they should be protected?
:02:16
We must protect America
from the ideas they're spreading...
:02:19
...through their films and television shows.
:02:22
When I joined the Party,
they were trying to help people.
:02:28
I thought they were trying to help people.
It was the Depression.
:02:31
TAVENNER: People needed help.
:02:34
TAVENNER: It was a good thing then.
:02:35
CHAIRMAN: You came here and
you confessed your membership.
:02:39
All we're asking you to do in good faith...
:02:42
...and to purge yourself
of your mistakes in the past...
:02:45
...is to help us in identifying the people...
:02:48
...in those photographs.
:02:50
I don't want to be an informer.
:02:52
CHAIRMAN: Real Americans have appeared
before this Committee demonstrating loyalty.
:02:58
How do you think we got your name
in the first place?