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Descriptive Summary

Title:
Alexander Pennes Papers (Committee for Medical Freedom Records), 1946-1968

Collection number:
MSS 048

Creator:
Pennes, Alexander

Extent:
2 boxes, 1 half-box, 1 legal half-box

1 ½ linear feet

Repository:
Southern California Library for Social Studies and Research
Los Angeles, CA 90044

Abstract:
The majority of this collection concerns the blacklisting of doctors and other medical professionals during the Cold War/McCarthy Era, particularly the dismissal of three doctors by the Cedars of Lebanon Hospital in Los Angeles in December 1951.

Language:
English.

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