P J O'Connell rightly recommends OPERATION ABOLITION, the HUAC version of the San Francisco hearings of 1960, as a window on the anti-communist hysteria of the time; the rebuttal film he recalls is, I think, OPERATION CORRECTION, which was produced by the Northern California branch of the ACLU. I recall using OPERATION ABOLITION during the early 1960s as an organizing and consciousness-raising device; along with some other radical (?) graduate students at Cornell who were interested in peace, civil rights, and civil liberties, I took the film to nearby colleges, where we would show it and then refute it. The self-satisfied anti-communist crudity of the film, showing Berkeley students being fire-hosed and dragged down the marble steps of the interior of San Francisco's city hall, with heads bouncing on the steps, made our work easy. Tom Benson Penn State