Background
Faulk, John Henry was born on August 21, 1913 in Austin, Texas, United States. Son of John Henry and Martha Cynthia (Miner) Faulk.
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1964 Copyright-Picture of dust cover same as shown- by John Henry Faulk. This book reveals just some of what went on as a result of Aware, Inc.. This is John Henry Faulk's on personal encounter with Aware. You will not be able to put this book down.
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( John Henry Faulk was a popular radio and television per...)
John Henry Faulk was a popular radio and television personality during the McCarthy era. He was host of his own radio program on WCBS in New York when he publicly challenged AWARE, Inc., an ultrapatriotic group engaged in the systematic blacklisting of entertainment personalities. In response, an AWARE bulletin accused Faulk himself of subversive associations. Angry and frightened by this accusation, Faulk brought suit against AWARE, charging conspiracy to libel him and to destroy his career. Thus began one of the great civil rights cases of this century. John Henry Faulk recounts the story of this harrowing time in Fear on Trial, the dramatic account of his six years on the "blacklist"—an exile that began with the AWARE bulletin and ended with his vindication by a jury award of $3,500,000—the largest libel award in U.S. history at that time. The heart of the book is the trial of Faulk's libel action against AWARE, in which attorney Louis Nizer relentlessly exposed the blacklist for what it was—a cynical disdain of elementary decency couched in the rhetoric of patriotism. Many of the people involved in the Faulk case were and are famous: attorneys Nizer and Roy Cohn; Edward R. Murrow and Charles Collingwood; Myrna Loy, Kim Hunter, Tony Randall, and Lee Grant; J. Frank Dobie; Ed Sullivan, David Susskind, and Mark Goodson. But the hero is Faulk himself, a man who—in the words of Studs Terkel—"faced the bastards and beat them down."
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Faulk, John Henry was born on August 21, 1913 in Austin, Texas, United States. Son of John Henry and Martha Cynthia (Miner) Faulk.
Bachelor in English, University Texas, 1936. Master of Arts, University Texas, 1940.
Fellow, Julius Rosenwald Foundation, 1941-1942; member of faculty department English, University Texas, 1942; field director, American Red Cross, Cairo, Egypt, 1942-1944; star radio programs, Columbia Broadcasting System, New York City, 1946-1948; star John Henry Faulk Show, station WCBS, 1951-1957; star It's News to Me, Columbia Broadcasting System-television, 1953-1955; star Leave it to the Girls, Columbia Broadcasting System-television, 1953-1955; star Walk a Mile for a Camel, Columbia Broadcasting System-television, 1953-1955. Lecturer on humor and American heritage, 1949-1965. Appeared in movies All theWay Home, 1963, The Best Man, 1964.
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Precinct chairman Austin Democratic Committee. Member Travis County Democratic Executive Committee With Army of the United States, 1944-1946. Member American Federation of television and Radio Artists (past vice president), Screen Actors Guild, International Platform Association (board governors 1967-1990).
Married Elizabeth Peake, May 29, 1965. 1 son, John Henry III. Children by previous marriage: Tannehill, Johanna, Evelyn, Frank Dobie.