Weekly Perspective, September 19 - September 25

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Issue 79 September 19 - September 25 Toddler rescued from well Red Scare reaches Hollywood Sartre refuses Nobel Prize Baby Jessica rescued from Texas well shaft, Oct. 16, 1987 On Oct. 16, 1987, an 18-month-old Texas girl was rescued from an abandoned well where she had fallen. Two days later, The Gazette of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, reported on the medical fallout from her 58-hour ordeal, which ended after round-the-clock drilling allowed rescuers to reach her through a new shaft. “Doctors operated Saturday on little Jessica McClure’s injured right foot and said they were hopeful they would not have to amputate it, despite damage caused by the 2 ½ days she spent trapped in a well shaft,” the Associated Press story explained. Read more about Jessica McClure and her ordeal A month after her rescue, an article in the Nov. 21, 1987, Gettysburg Times of Gettysburg, Penn., announced that the toddler had finally been cleared to return home. Smiling Jessica McClure leaves Texas hospital The April 11, 1989, Chronicle-Telegram of Elyria, Ohio, previewed a made-for-TV movie about the rescue starring Beau Bridges and Patty Duke. Everybody’s Baby Red Scare reaches Hollywood, Oct. 20, 1947 This week in 1947, the House Committee on un-American Activities took its hunt for Communist subversives to the movie business, whose subpoenaed producers, writers, and actors ranged from cooperative to outraged about the investigation. “Jack L. Warner, Hollywood movie producer, told the house committee on un-American activities Monday that people with “un-American leanings” have infiltrated into the movie industry,” reported an Associated Press article published Oct. 20, 1947 in The Charleston Daily Mail of Charleston, W. Va. “But he carefully declined to say under questioning from committee members that these people are communists and instead insisted on using the description ‘un-American.’ “And he said he does not believe anyone in Hollywood has advocated overthrow of the United States government by force or violence.” Read more about Hollywood’s Red Scare The Oct. 28, 1947, Union-Bulletin of Walla Walla, Wash., described pending charges for one man who refused to tell the committee whether he was a Communist. Movie Writer Faces Action for Contempt In the wake of the hearings, a Dec. 6, 1947, editorial in the Lima News of Lima, Ohio, predicted blander films from a shaken industry. More Wraps on the Movies Sartre refuses Nobel Prize for Literature, Oct. 22, 1964 In 1964, writer and philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre became the first person to voluntarily decline a Nobel prize. “French playwright-novelist Jean-Paul Sartre won the 1964 Nobel Prize for Literature today – and said he will refuse the $53,123 award,” announced an Associated Press article published in the Oct. 22, 1964, issue of the Iola Register of Iola, Kansas. “The coveted award, whose winner is selected by the Swedish Academy of Letters, carries with it a gold medal, diploma and the cash prize.” Read more about Jean-Paul Sartre In its Oct. 22, 1964, issue, the Northwest Arkansas Times detailed the reluctant Nobel laureate’s biography and the list of his compatriots who were prior Nobel prize winners. French Writer Jean-Paul Sartre A Dec. 2, 1964,column in The Oneonta Daily Star of Oneonta, N.Y., discussed Sartre’s individualism and existentialist philosophy. Individual Holds the Power, Ignores the Glory

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