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, 01:54, August 19, 2009Quentin Young
A popular misconception is the Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] chaired the HUAC. But McCarthy was in the US Senate, not the House of Representatives.
A popular misconception is the Senator [[Joseph McCarthy]] chaired the HUAC. But McCarthy was in the US Senate, not the House of Representatives.
== 1968 Democratic Party National Convention ==
The Committee conducted a hearing, "Subversive Involvement in Disruption of 1968 Democratic Party National Convention,"
which featured Dr. Quentin Young, a friend and supporter of [[President Barack Obama]], as a witness. Young served with a group calling itself the "Medical Committee for Human Rights" which provided treatment for protestors injured during the
riots in Chicago in August 1968.
Young and was asked if he had paid $1000 of $1500 due for the rent of the National Mobilization Committee. This group was
described by the committee staff counsel as "the principal organizer and coordinating agency for the disruptions which took place in Chicago during the Democratic Convention." Young admitted lent $1000 "to somebody which was promptly paid back in cash over a 2 day period." The "somebody" was identified as [[Rennie Davis]] of the National Mobilization Committee and the [[Students for a Democratic Society]] (SDS). Asked directly if he were a member of the [[CPUSA]], he refused to answer, saying
it was "irrelevant." Later, the counsel for the committee declared, "Dr. Young, the committee had received information that you have been a member of the Communist Party, specifically, a member of the doctors' club of the party on the North Side of
Chicago, a club that was called the Bethune Club." Again, Young refused to answer, saying only that he would exercise his "First Amendment" and "other protections." Staff Counsel Chester Smith went on to ask whether Young served as a member of the governing council of the Medical Committee for Human Rights "pursuant to a plan or directive of the Communist Party." Eventually, he replied, "No."
==Further reading==
==Further reading==