ABSTRACT
Red Channels was subtitled The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television. Often called “the bible of the blacklist,” it was a compilation of information drawn from the pages of Counterattack, a weekly newsletter of “Facts to Combat Communism,” and the files of Vincent Hartnett, who operated a red-hunting outfit called Aware, Inc. An inexpensive paperback (a dollar per copy, with reductions for bulk orders), decorated with lightning bolts and a red hand reaching to seize a broadcast microphone, it was published by the innocent-sounding American Business Consultants on Thursday, June 22, 1950. It is easy to give the exact date, because the book instantly attracted a lot of attention.
