This 1947 photo above features members of \"The Hollywood Ten\" many of whom would serve time in prison during the post - WWII \"Red Scare\". Why were they convicted?
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![Featured Document Display: Remembering the Hollywood 10: Screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. | National Archives Museum Featured Document Display: Remembering the Hollywood 10: Screenwriter Ring Lardner, Jr. | National Archives Museum](https://museum.archives.gov/sites/default/files/2022-08/huac-press-release-hollywood-blacklist_0.jpg)
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![Nine of the ten Hollywood writers, directors and producers, indicted by a Washington, D.C., grand jury on charges of contempt of Congress, surrender at the U.S. Marshal's office in Los Angeles, Dec. Nine of the ten Hollywood writers, directors and producers, indicted by a Washington, D.C., grand jury on charges of contempt of Congress, surrender at the U.S. Marshal's office in Los Angeles, Dec.](https://c8.alamy.com/comp/2MY811B/nine-of-ten-hollywood-writers-directors-and-producers-indicted-by-a-washington-dc-grand-jury-on-charges-of-contempt-of-congress-surrender-in-a-group-at-the-us-marshals-office-in-los-angeles-dec-10-1947-from-left-robert-adrian-scott-edward-dmytryk-samuel-ornitz-lester-cole-herbert-biberman-albert-maltz-alvah-bessie-john-howard-lawson-and-ring-lardner-jr-the-tenth-dalton-trumbo-sent-word-he-would-surrender-the-following-day-ap-photoharold-filan-2MY811B.jpg)
Nine of the ten Hollywood writers, directors and producers, indicted by a Washington, D.C., grand jury on charges of contempt of Congress, surrender at the U.S. Marshal's office in Los Angeles, Dec.
![Hollywood Black List - Enemy in the Mirror Hollywood artists and writers, accused of communist sympathies, were blacklisted in 1947. Hollywood Black List - Enemy in the Mirror Hollywood artists and writers, accused of communist sympathies, were blacklisted in 1947.](https://www.enemyinmirror.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/92c852e874a6793a1ceb88fc3038c214-1.jpeg)
Hollywood Black List - Enemy in the Mirror Hollywood artists and writers, accused of communist sympathies, were blacklisted in 1947.
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![Hollywood Ten Cited for Contempt, November 24, 1947 | Gale Blog: Library & Educator News | K12, Academic & Public Hollywood Ten Cited for Contempt, November 24, 1947 | Gale Blog: Library & Educator News | K12, Academic & Public](https://blog.gale.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/iStock-1126093641-scaled.jpg)