| Peter Schwartz | has written and lectured extensively about Communism's philosophical origins and Communist movements around the world, including the United States. He is the editor of the recently published Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution by Ayn Rand. |
| Scott McConnell | as part of his work as the Ayn Rand Institute's oral historian has interviewed and researched artists blacklisted by the Hollywood Communists. |
| Jeff Britting | has researched Communism in Hollywood both for the Ayn Rand Archive and for the Academy Award-nominated documentary Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life. |
This Committee's spokesmen can provide the facts about Communism in Hollywood.
Far from being innocent victims who held unpopular ideas, the Hollywood Communists were members of the Communist Party whose mission, directed and financed by the Soviet Union, was the violent overthrow of the United States Government and the end of all freedom in America. The Ad Hoc Committee for Naming Facts was formed in the wake of the negative reaction surrounding the Motion Picture Academy's decision to give Elia Kazan a lifetime achievement Oscar. The Academy's decision has been criticized by leftist groups because Kazan recanted his belief in Communism and testified before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 about Communist infiltration in Hollywood and the American theater. The Committee plans to hold a demonstration of support, both for Kazan and the Academy, outside the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion on March 21 during the Oscar ceremony. The Committee is also asking Oscar ceremony attendees to wear an American flag lapel pin as a symbol of support for Kazan and his opposition to Communism.