Cover to the playbill for The Cruicible. The play, originally wrote in 1953 by Arthur Miller, holds a legacy of being specifically written as an allegory for McCarthyism. Miller’s play is a fictionalized version of the Salem Witch Trials.
Senator Joseph McCarthy checks his telephone for listening devices in this photo by Oliver Atkins for an article in The Saturday Evening Post entitled: “Why Has Washington Gone Crazy?” July 29, 1950.
Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School students practice Civil Defense drills in the school hallway for photographer, Oliver Atkins to illustrate an article entitled: “This School is Ready for the H-Bomb” in The Saturday Evening Post, September 25, 1954.