Oral history interview with Robert J. Rutman, circa 1988-1996

Biographical Note

Biochemist

Scope and Contents

Youth; family trade union background; Progressive Party 1948; joins Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) 1949; inactive; limits of CP participation, influence, attraction; House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) investigation; testimony, use of Fifth Amendment, consequences; Jefferson University Medical School (Philadelphia) firing, actions of administration, reactions of neighbors. Cancer research University of Pennsylvania, loss of career opportunities

Subjects

• Dorman, Joseph, 1958- interviewer.
• Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Rutman, Robert J., 1919-2020--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by Joseph Dorman