AUTOPSY ON OPERATION ABOLITION. (1961, sound, 61min, b&w, 16mm)
Sponsor: Catechetical Guild. Production Co.: impact Films. Director: Fred Barnes. nArrAtor: rev. Louis J. twomey. Resources: Copyright not registered; Lawrence Laurent, “Autopsy Could Set up the Funeral for Operation Abolition,” Washington Post and Times Herald, Mar. 15, 1962, d8; “Catholic Film Gives Views on Coast riot,” NYT, May 3, 1962, 16. Holdings: LC, Macdonald.
Dissection of the film Operation Abolition, which was produced by the House Un-American Activities Committee to show communist involvement in the protests sparked by its 1960 hearings held in San Francisco. Autopsy on Operation Abolition includes an interview with his- torian Henry Nash Smith, who attacks Operation Abolition as “a deliberate falsification” but is sympathetic to its anticommunist viewpoint. note: The Catechetical Guild is a Roman Catholic educational organization.