Laurence A. Johnson

Laurence A. Johnson

Laurence A. Johnson was an owner of four supermarkets in Syracuse, New York, who embarked on a one-man "Syracuse Crusade" in the 1950s to force television advertisers to cancel sponsorship of programs in which "suspect" actors appeared. Johnson's pressure tactics were a manifestation of McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklist.

External links

See the January 13, 1991 New York Times article 'If I Stood Up Earlier...' by television producer Mark Goodman. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0CE3DB1339F930A25752C0A967958260&sec=&spon=&pagewanted=3

The Book "Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture" By Thomas Patrick Doherty is available online:
* http://books.google.com/books?id=eGLl1O9SbsYC&pg=PA27&lpg=PA27&dq=syracuse+mccarthyism&source=web&ots=GjA6V2VNrq&sig=3t5VJuHVMfPB2683h40bJG_J8J0&hl=en

The book "A History of Broadcasting in the United States" by Erik Barnouw
* http://books.google.com/books?id=UzVDHPsJ6AoC&pg=PA273&lpg=PA273&dq=laurence+a+johnson+syracuse&source=web&ots=UDZRi5xL_7&sig=6ogxKbj8wDgg5FWRSJkQbPqPHVg&hl=en#PPA274,M1

The book "Deadly Farce: Harvey Matusow and the Informer System in the McCarthy Era" by Robert M. Lichtman and Ronald D. Cohen
* http://books.google.com/books?id=wnG6UkdyaYEC&pg=PA63&lpg=PA63&dq=laurence+a+johnson+syracuse&source=web&ots=xhwgJUzsaq&sig=2G0sSRLnT5qFNIIMnn5xge0f9Ng&hl=en#PPA63,M1

The Book "Programming for TV, Radio, and Cable" by Edwin T. Vane and Lynne S. Gross
* http://books.google.com/books?id=QNBlwUNuyh8C&pg=PA239&lpg=PA239&dq=laurence+a+johnson+syracuse&source=web&ots=5E0O6LV

The paper "How the Film and Television Blacklists Worked" by Richard A. Schwartz
* http://comptalk.fiu.edu/blacklist.htm

The newspaper column "Standing Tall Against McCarthy" By Molly Ivins, Texas Observer. Posted November 29, 2005. http://www.alternet.org/movies/28826/


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