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Originally Posted by Rizla
What about Howard Fast, the author of Spartacus? He was imprisoned for refusing to reveal the names of people who had collected money for refugees fleeing the Franco dictatorship.
His imprisonment was the inspiration for Spartacus, which inspired the film.
Edit: Fast was imprisoned by the House of Un-American Activities Committee, which McCarthy had no direct connection to.
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He didn't have an indirect connection to it either. That happened before McCarthy's entry into politics.
The term for that is "unrelated. " The term for connecting the two is "spurious allegation."