The Greatest Speech Ever Made - Charlie Chaplin

[Omaha Steve]

Run time: 04:39 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pK2WJd5bXFg   Posted on YouTube: September 15, 2011 By YouTube Member: guilleross Views on YouTube: 28827   Posted on DU: November 15, 2011 By DU Member: Omaha Steve Views on DU: 1539

 

[KansDem]

1. Wow! That speech could have been written today!

No wonder why CC was blacklisted...

On edit: a partial list of blacklisted Americans--

A few of the more notable people who were blacklisted or suffered some other persecution during McCarthyism are listed here:

Nelson Algren, writer<48>
Elmer Bernstein, composer and conductor<49>
David Bohm, physicist and philosopher<50>
Bertolt Brecht, poet, playwright, screenwriter
Charlie Chaplin, actor and director<51>
Aaron Copland, composer<52>
Bartley Crum, attorney<53>
Howard Da Silva, actor<54>
Jules Dassin, director<55>
Dolores del Río, actress<56>
W. E. B. Du Bois, civil rights activist and author<57>
Howard Fast, writer<58>
Carl Foreman, writer of High Noon
John Garfield, actor<52>
Jack Gilford, actor<54>
Ruth Gordon, actress<54>
Lee Grant, actress<59>
Dashiell Hammett, author<52>
Elizabeth Hawes, clothing designer, author, equal rights activist<60>
Lillian Hellman, playwright<52>
Lena Horne, singer <54>
Langston Hughes, writer<52>
Sam Jaffe, actor<52>
Theodore Kaghan, diplomat<61>
Garson Kanin, writer and director<52>
Benjamin Keen, historian<62>
Gypsy Rose Lee, actress and stripper<52>
Cornelius Lanczos, mathematician and physicist<63>
Arthur Laurents, playwright<54>
Philip Loeb, actor<64>
Joseph Losey, director<52>
John F. Melby, diplomat<65>
Burgess Meredith, actor<52>
Arthur Miller, playwright and essayist<52>
Zero Mostel, actor<52>
J. Robert Oppenheimer, physicist, scientific director of the Manhattan Project<66>
Dorothy Parker, writer<52>
Linus Pauling, chemist, winner of two Nobel prizes<67>
Samuel Reber, diplomat<68>
Martin Ritt, actor and director<69>
Paul Robeson, actor, athlete, singer, writer, political activist<70>
Edward G. Robinson, actor<52>
Waldo Salt, screenwriter<71>
Pete Seeger, folk singer<52>
Artie Shaw, jazz musician<52>
Irwin Shaw, writer<54>
William L. Shirer, journalist<72>
Lionel Stander, actor<73>
Paul Sweezy, economist and founder-editor of Monthly Review<74>
Charles W. Thayer, diplomat<75>
Tsien Hsue-shen, physicist<76>

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism

I never knew Aaron Copland was blacklisted?!! :wtf:

[valerief]

2. The background music the youtube poster added was distracting. It was more effective

in its original form.

But thanks! It was a great speech.

[drokhole]

3. Got the speech backing some great OWS footage here...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x634938

Brilliant speech.

[slay]

4. Indeed

thanks for sharing this