AP Historical Hard Drive 2009

A raid by agents of the Dies committee in a Baltimore, Md. office described as a Communist headquarters, netted this recruiting flag which committee m...

Justice James C. McReynolds, only Supreme Court member now listed by the administration as a

The Andrews Sisters of radio fame, from left to right, are: Maxene, Patty, and LaVerne, seen Jan. 31, 1940 in New York. A representative of the trio s...

Chairman Martin Dies (D-Tex.) of the House committee investigating un-American activities takes the time out to ready hundreds of letters and telegram...

Self-protection is what Rep. Joe Starnes (D-Ala.) is showing Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.), right, at the meeting of Dies' un-American committee in Washin...

German soldiers pass the border barricade between the Polish corridor and the free state of Danzig for the first time, Sept. 16, 1939 at Steinfliess....

22 ton steamer arrested off Palestine with 400 refugees aboard after a month at sea. With 401 men, women and children huddled on the upper deck with c...

After a double Atlantic crossing following the refusal to allow the German liner St. Louis to land her 907 Jewish refugees in Cuba, the liner brought...

Still a people without a country were these German Jewish refugees who returned to Antwerp aboard the liner St. Louis after they has been denied entra...

The close up of the two Indians in war bonnets shows Jules Sioui (left) and Arigene Sioui, as they posed with the ancient Indian dress they wore when...

Aime Romain, one of the Indian leaders; Gerard Groshouis, Bernadotte Sioui, Origene Sioui beside a cannon captured by the Hurons from the French 200 y...

Fifty German-Jewish refugee children, ranging in age from 5 to 13, salute the American flag, June 5, 1939, at a suburban Philadelphia estate where the...

A stirring plea for a

Jewish persecution is rampant in the

This is the free-for-all which ensued March 20, 1939 in Miami, Fla, following the calling of a meeting of the White Front Anti-Semitic Organization....

Representatives of several New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia organizations presented Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.) with a petition six hundr...

Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.), right, found himself enmeshed in a petition measuring almost 600 feet long asking Congress to continue the hearings of the...

Joseph Kennedy Jr., eldest son of the U.S. envoy to Britain, goes out skating with skating champion Megan Taylor in St. Moritz, Switzerland, Jan. 17,...

Three hundred Jewish refugees from Europe are shown at Montevideo, Uruguay, on Jan. 13, 1939 seeking their baggage as they arrived from Cannes on the...

Prince Takahiko Asaka, whose family is closely related to Japan's Imperial House, was recently married to Chikako Todo, 18-year-old daughter of the J...

A Chinese woman surveys the remains of her family, all of whom were killed during Japanese occupation of Nanking, China, seen Dec. 29, 1938, allegedly...

Like everyday little boys the world over, these Jewish youngsters who crossed the frontier Minto Holland from Germany gets a wash-up at Garden, near A...

Extracts from documents assailing Jews, government officials and the Masonic lodge were read by chairman Martin Dies, (D-Tex.) before the hearing of t...

A young man with a broom clears broken glass from shop windows in Berlin, the morning after the Nazis demolished thousands of Jewish facilities during...

In a formal statement of reply read at the opening hearing, Chairman Martin Dies (D-Tex.) of the House committee investigating un-American activities,...

A California legionnaire, Harper Knowles, left, accused Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins of

Fred V. Frahm, right, Detroit superintendent of police, shows Rep. Martin Dies (D-Tex.), chairman of committee investigating un-American activities, a...

This was the setting in the second inning of the World Series opener, Oct. 5, 1938 in Chicago when the Yankees manufactured their first run. Gehrig wa...

In flowing tie, Girolamo Valenti, left, chairman of the Italian Anti-Fascist committee, told chairman Martin Dies (D-Tex.) at the hearing of the House...

Shown in photo is Frank J. Demaree, Chicago cub outfielder, in action, Sept. 29, 1938. (AP Photo)

John C. Metcalfe, investigator for the Dies committee of un-American activities, submitted a large number of pictures, which he said were taken in Ger...

The motor ship St. Louis, of the Hapag-Lloyd line, arrived Sept. 28, 1938 in New York, and immediately made preparations to return to Hamburg without...

Rep. Martin Dies, right, is denouncing vigorously the recent appointment of Gov. James V. Allred to a federal judgeship, but you'd never guess it from...

Margaret Kerr, patriotic society worker, identified a copy of an affidavit for Chairman Martin Dies (D-Tex.) of the House committee investigating un-A...

Walls of the room in the House of Representatives office building in which a House committee is investigating un-American activities, were adorned wit...

John C. Metcalfe, center, committee investigator and former Chicago newspaperman, told the House Committee on Un-American Activities in Washington, th...

John C. Metcalfe, center, German-born investigator for the House committee studying un-American activities, testified at the hearing opening in Washin...

Baseballer Charlie Grimm (left), recently deposed by the Cubs in favor of Gabby Hartnett as manager, takes up new duties as a radio broadcaster at the...

Max Baer, who is casting covetous eyes toward the heavyweight title again, has gone into training at Lake Tahoe, Calif., July 18, 1938. He???s seen s...

This is a portion of the near-capacity crowd that packed Wrigley Field in Chicago, July 17, 1938 to see Dizzy Dean defeat the Boston Bees, 3 to 1, in...

This is a portion of the near-capacity crowd that packed Wrigley Field in Chicago, July 17, 1938 to see Dizzy Dean defeat the Boston Bees, 3 to 1, in...

Shirley Temple, ringlet-topped child film star, center, and J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the federal bureau of investigation, right, are shown during one...

Here???s Babe Ruth, sliding into his Brooklyn Dodgers uniform at Ebbets Field in New York to take up his duties as the new Dodgers coach, June 19, 193...

Prepared to investigate

Leo E. Durocher, former cardinal, presented this face at the Brooklyn dodgers??? Clearwater, Fla., March 28, 1938 training camp. Leo???s a part of the...

Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers is shown batting in an exhibition game with the Tigers, March 28, 1938. Rudy York of the Detroit Tigers is catch...

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, first lady of the nation, and Shirley Temple, first lady of the motion picture box office, are shown as they talked together w...

Leo Durocher got right into action at the Clearwater, Fla., March 16, 1938 camp of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The former cardinal was expected to continue...

Leo Durocher got right into action at the Clearwater, Fla., March 16, 1938 camp of the Brooklyn Dodgers. The former cardinal was expected to continue...

Princess Elizabeth, left, and her younger sister, Princess Margaret Rose, sit in the royal box watching the jumping at the Pony Show, March, 1938, Lon...