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Lucille Ball: Gun Wounds, Refugees, and the Redhead Who Survived the Red Scare

Lucille Ball: Gun Wounds, Refugees, and the Redhead Who Survived the Red Scare

Released Wednesday, 24th August 2022
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Lucille Ball: Gun Wounds, Refugees, and the Redhead Who Survived the Red Scare

Lucille Ball: Gun Wounds, Refugees, and the Redhead Who Survived the Red Scare

Lucille Ball: Gun Wounds, Refugees, and the Redhead Who Survived the Red Scare

Lucille Ball: Gun Wounds, Refugees, and the Redhead Who Survived the Red Scare

Wednesday, 24th August 2022
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Lucille Ball might have been a natural boundary-pusher, but America's top TV comedienne had some ‘splaining to do when a damning news broadcast unveiled her former ties to the Communist Party. The hysteria of the Red Scare threatened to bury this redhead at the bottom of the Hollywood blacklist overnight. Even when America put rampant McCarthyism to rest, the United States government kept watching Lucille Ball – and we’re not talking about I Love Lucy reruns.


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