Audio recording of Mark Nickerson’s 1954 hearing with the House Un-American Activities Committee
The following is a radio broadcast recording of a House Un-American Activities Committee trial with former Professor of Pharmacology Mark Nickerson, M.D., Ph.D., on May 10, 1954, to investigate his ties to the Communist Party. The trial, chaired by U.S. Representative Kit Clardy and HUAC counsel Frank Tavenner, took place in Lansing, Michigan. For more on Nickerson and the events leading up to the hearing, read Seeing Red.
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