Donald Trump's adoption of the title phrase has prompted a column in Wednesday's NYT written by the daughter of the late John Garfield, a Hollywood star of another era who died unexpectedly of a heart attack in 1952 at age 39. He had been hounded by the Commie hunters in the House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC) as well as Sen. Joe McCarthy & Roy Cohn. Her position is that the Witch Hunt killed him. But the rumor back then was that he died in the presence of a woman who was not his wife. At the coroner's inquest the young woman was asked to describe Garfield's last moments. It was alleged that she answered in the following vein: "John said he was coming but I guess he was really going!" This was how the stenographer recorded it but after sixty-five years memories can fade away.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/opinion/children-of-a-witch-hunt.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
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