Langston Hughes on Trial | McCarthy | American Experience | PBS

In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private, closed-door interrogation pitted Hughes against the Subcommittee’s chief counsel, Roy Cohn. We dramatized the actual hearing transcripts of Hughes’s testimony, made public 50 years later.
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Illustrations: Jonell Joshua
Voice of Langston Hughes: Jericho Brown
Voice of Roy Cohn: Kyle Minshew