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Leonard Bernstein and the FBI


FBI Records: The Vault — Leonard Bernstein

Bernstein (1918-1990) was composer, conductor, and pianist who was investigated by the FBI for his ties to communist organizations.

Why did the US government spy on Leonard Bernstein for 30 years?

Committed though he was, those that knew him would never have considered Bernstein an enemy of the state. However, as recently released files show, J Edgar ...

Leonard Bernstein and the FBI | BrandeisNOW - Brandeis University

The FBI failed to prove that Bernstein was a Communist but in 1950 did succeed in getting him temporarily blacklisted from the CBS television ...

My Father and the FBI - Leonard Bernstein

News for friends of Leonard Bernstein. My Father and the FBI. Leonard Bernstein with students at the White House, 1964. by Jamie Bernstein Thomas. W hen the ...

Radical Chic Flap | Humanitarian | About - Leonard Bernstein

FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called the Black Panther Party "the greatest threat to the internal security of the country." Yet to civil libertarians, the arrest ...

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Why was Leonard Bernstein on the FBI's watch list? Five things to ...

In the 1950s, in the midst of the McCarthyite witch hunt, Bernstein's name even appeared on an official FBI list of individuals suspected of ...

Bernstein and the F.B.I. | The New Yorker

During the long reign of J. Edgar Hoover, Leonard Bernstein was a person of considerable interest to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

The FBI's Most Wanted (Composer): Leonard Bernstein's "Mass"

Behind the scenes, the FBI heard a rumor that the world renowned composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein was orchestrating a plot to publicly ...

Leonard Bernstein's Radicalism - Dissent Magazine

The FBI put Bernstein on its Security Index, identifying him as a communist who posed a threat to national security. He was also named in a ...

Bernstein and McCarthyism (Chapter 3) - Cambridge University Press

According to an FBI account of June 24, 1941, Leonard Bernstein “was reported to have been one of the leaders of the John Reed Society, an organization at ...

Files Detail Years of Spying on Bernstein - The New York Times

The Federal Bureau of Investigation obsessively documented the activities of Leonard Bernstein, especially his associations with groups listed as subversive or ...

Leonard Bernstein's FBI file - Radio Survivor

As noted, in 1949 the Bureau began surveillance of Bernstein and his activities. A memorandum to its director J. Edgar Hoover noted his alleged ...

Leonard Bernstein's False Confession to a Crime He Did Not Commit

Leonard Bernstein, the flamboyant conductor of the New York Philharmonic and composer of West Side Story, was forced to defend his political views.

Blacklisted: The Political Life of Leonard Bernstein | WQXR Editorial

Blacklisted: The Political Life of Leonard Bernstein. Leonard Bernstein. ( AP Images ). i. Aug 23, 2017 · by James Bennett II ...

Leonard Bernstein's eventful and inspiring life - Classical-Music.com

West Side Story, an FBI warning, Beethoven by the Wall: Leonard Bernstein's eventful and inspiring life · Leonard Bernstein timeline · Leonard ...

The FBI's Most Wanted (Composer) — Leonard Bernstein's “Mass”

Despite all the conjecture, Nixon's goons never found any evidence of Bernstein's supposed masterplan. Mass, though certainly a call for peace ...

ON LEONARD BERNSTEIN, FBI LISTS AND USEFUL IDIOTS\ I SPY

It came like the rush of a mint julep on a hot summer day - Eric Breindel's calm dissection of the Leonard Bernstein-J. Edgar Hoover scandal. What that was all ...

THE FBI'S SOUR NOTES ON LEONARD BERNSTEIN

The FBI's monitoring of Bernstein started in the 1940s during the Red scares that permeated American politics and continued into the 1970s, when ...

FBI FOLLOWED LEONARD BERNSTEIN FOR DECADES

For more than three decades starting in the 1940s, the FBI obsessively documented the activities of Leonard Bernstein, especially his ...