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==Lawsuits== One libel lawsuit was filed against ''Red Channels'', by actor [[Joe Julian]], who charged that ''Red Channels'' was responsible for his income plummeting from $18,000 the year it was published to barely $1,500 three years later. The case was dismissed on the basis of the tract's care in not making overt claims about specific individuals and its brief disclaimer: "In screening personnel every safeguard must be used to protect genuine liberals from being unjustly labelled."<ref>''Red Channels'', p. 7, quoted in Doherty (2003), p. 236</ref> CBS radio personality [[John Henry Faulk]] also sued. Faulk was a favorite target of Hartnett, who proudly proclaimed himself a coauthor of ''Red Channels''. In 1953, Hartnett started AWARE, Inc., an anti-Communist organization with its own bulletin focused on the entertainment industry. The bulletin said that, in the 1940s, Faulk had sponsored a pro-Communist peace rally, entertained at pro-Communist clubs, appeared at Communist front activities, and addressed a "Spotlight on [Henry] Wallace" event in "'the official training school of the Communist conspiracy in New York'" (p. 232). CBS fired Faulk a bit over a year after he filed his lawsuit. In 1962, a jury awarded Faulk $3.5 million in damages. Although the award was later reduced, the verdict marked the effective end of the blacklisting era.<ref>[http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=14685 ''Red Channels'' profile at Humanities and Social Sciences Online]</ref>
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