1950s
The 1950s contain 81 verified events in the Capture Cascade Timeline.
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| Date | Event | Lanes | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959-09-14 | Landrum-Griffin Act Imposes Federal Restrictions on Union Internal Operations U.S. Congress · U.S. Department of Labor · Labor unions · Phil Landrum · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1959-06-26 | Prince Edward County Virginia Closes Entire Public School System for Five Years Rather Than Integrate Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors · Virginia General Assembly · Harry Byrd | confirmed | |
| 1959-06-02 | Prince Edward County Virginia Closes All Public Schools for Five Years Rather Than Integrate Prince Edward County Board of Supervisors · Prince Edward County School Board · Virginia political establishment | confirmed | |
| 1959-05-29 | Congress Passes NSA Act of 1959 (P.L. 86-36) Exempting NSA From Disclosure of Its Own Functions 86th Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · National Security Agency · Department of Defense | confirmed | |
| 1959-01-01 | Congress Holds 25 Hearings on Pentagon Revolving Door, General Bradley Testifies Against Contractor Influence U.S. Congress · General Omar Bradley · U.S. Department of Defense · Defense contractors | confirmed | |
| 1958-12-05 | NAM Executive VP Charles Sligh Calls for Business Political Mobilization to Build Conservative Coalition Charles R. Sligh Jr. · National Association of Manufacturers | confirmed | |
| 1958-11-04 | AFL-CIO Defeats Right-to-Work Campaigns in Five of Six States, Major Democratic Resistance Victory AFL-CIO · National Right to Work Committee · California voters · Ohio voters · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1958-01-01 | CIA Funding Reaches 53.5% of European Movement Budget via ACUE: Intelligence-Driven Supranational Integration CIA · Allen Dulles · William Donovan · American Committee on United Europe · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1958-01-01 | John M. Olin Foundation Begins Eight-Year Operation as Secret CIA Money Laundering Bank John M. Olin Foundation · Central Intelligence Agency · John M. Olin | confirmed | |
| 1957-09-24 | Eisenhower Sends Federal Troops to Little Rock After Governor Uses National Guard Against Integration Orval Faubus · Dwight D. Eisenhower · Little Rock Nine · 101st Airborne Division · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1957-09-09 | Civil Rights Act of 1957: First Federal Voting Rights Law Since Reconstruction Passes Despite Southern Filibuster Dwight D. Eisenhower · Lyndon B. Johnson · Strom Thurmond · Richard Russell · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1957-07-08 | Hoover Formalizes "Official and Confidential" File System, Institutionalizing Personal Blackmail Infrastructure J. Edgar Hoover · Helen Gandy · Clyde Tolson · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1957-06-17 | Yates v. United States Limits Smith Act Prosecutions, Supreme Court Begins Retreat from McCarthyism Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · Oleta O'Connor Yates · Communist Party USA · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1957-06-01 | MKULTRA Subproject 68 Funds Ewen Cameron Psychic Driving Experiments at McGill Donald Ewen Cameron · Central Intelligence Agency · Sidney Gottlieb · McGill University · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1957-03-01 | Indiana Passes Right-to-Work Law, So Unpopular It's Repealed Within Eight Years Indiana General Assembly · Republican Party · Democratic Party · Indiana labor unions · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1956-11-13 | Supreme Court Affirms Montgomery Bus Segregation Unconstitutional, Boycott Ends in Victory Martin Luther King Jr. · Rosa Parks · E.D. Nixon · Jo Ann Robinson · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1956-09-21 | Virginia Enacts Massive Resistance Laws Authorizing School Closures to Prevent Integration Harry F. Byrd · Thomas Bahnson Stanley · Virginia General Assembly · Byrd Organization | confirmed | |
| 1956-08-28 | FBI Director Hoover Launches COINTELPRO to Target Communist Party and Domestic Dissent J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · Communist Party USA | confirmed | |
| 1956-06-29 | Federal-Aid Highway Act Creates Interstate System, Enables Destruction of Black Urban Neighborhoods Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Bureau of Public Roads · General Motors · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1956-03-29 | Mississippi Creates State Sovereignty Commission for Civil Rights Surveillance and Segregationist Funding Mississippi Legislature · Ross Barnett · Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission · White Citizens' Councils | confirmed | |
| 1956-03-12 | Southern Manifesto Signed by 101 Congressmen Pledging Resistance to School Integration Walter F. George · Harry F. Byrd · Strom Thurmond · 19 U.S. Senators · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1956-02-06 | University of Alabama Expels Autherine Lucy After White Mob Violence, First Black Student Barred Autherine Lucy · University of Alabama · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1956-01-01 | White Citizens Councils Reach Peak Membership of 300,000 Through Business Elite Coordination White Citizens' Councils · Tom P. Brady · Ross Barnett · Allen C. Thompson · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-12-05 | AFL-CIO Merger Consolidates Labor Movement, But Cements Conservative Leadership George Meany · Walter Reuther · American Federation of Labor · Congress of Industrial Organizations · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-12-01 | Rosa Parks Arrested for Refusing to Give Up Bus Seat Sparking Montgomery Bus Boycott Rosa Parks · Martin Luther King Jr. · Montgomery Improvement Association · E.D. Nixon · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-10-01 | CIA Operation Midnight Climax Begins Dosing Unwitting Americans with LSD in San Francisco Safe House George Hunter White · Sidney Gottlieb · Central Intelligence Agency · Federal Bureau of Narcotics | confirmed | |
| 1955-08-28 | Emmett Till Murdered in Mississippi After Accusation from White Woman Roy Bryant · J.W. Milam · Mamie Till · Tallahatchie County Sheriff | confirmed | |
| 1955-05-31 | Brown II Orders Desegregation with "All Deliberate Speed," Enabling Decade of Resistance Earl Warren · U.S. Supreme Court · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · Thurgood Marshall · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1955-05-01 | Michigan State University Vietnam Advisory Group: CIA Officers Operate Under Academic Cover in Saigon Wesley Fishel · Michigan State University · CIA · Ngo Dinh Diem | confirmed | |
| 1955-01-01 | National Right to Work Committee Founded to Coordinate Anti-Union Corporate Lobbying Fred A. Hartley · National Right to Work Committee · Corporate funders · Conservative donors | confirmed | |
| 1954-12-02 | Senate Votes 67-22 to Censure Joseph McCarthy Ending Four Years of Terror Joseph McCarthy · Ralph Flanders · Arthur Watkins · Margaret Chase Smith | confirmed | |
| 1954-09-01 | Communist Control Act Bans Party Members from Union Leadership, Weaponizing Anti-Communism Against Labor U.S. Congress · Dwight D. Eisenhower · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Federation of Labor · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-08-02 | Housing Act of 1954 Expands Urban Renewal, Intensifies Destruction of Black Communities Dwight D. Eisenhower · U.S. Congress · Urban Renewal Administration · Real estate industry · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-07-11 | White Citizens' Councils Founded With Business Elite Backing to Resist Integration Robert B. Patterson · Tom P. Brady · White Citizens' Councils · Mississippi business class · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-27 | CIA Operation PBSUCCESS Overthrows Guatemalan Democracy, Protects United Fruit Company Interests Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · United Fruit Company · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-17 | Operation Wetback Mass Deportation Uses Military Tactics, Human Rights Violations Dwight D. Eisenhower · Joseph May Swing · Herbert Brownell · Immigration and Naturalization Service | confirmed | |
| 1954-06-09 | Joseph Welch Confronts McCarthy with Have You No Sense of Decency in Army Hearings Joseph Welch · Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · G. David Schine | confirmed | |
| 1954-05-17 | Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court Decision Declares School Segregation Unconstitutional Earl Warren · Thurgood Marshall · NAACP Legal Defense Fund · U.S. Supreme Court | confirmed | |
| 1954-04-22 | Army-McCarthy Hearings Begin as Military Charges Senator with Improper Pressure for Aide Joseph McCarthy · Roy Cohn · Robert Stevens · Joseph Welch · +3 | confirmed | |
| 1954-04-12 | AEC Security Hearing Against Oppenheimer Begins Targeting Manhattan Project Director J. Robert Oppenheimer · Lewis Strauss · Gordon Gray · J. Edgar Hoover · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1954-02-26 | Bricker Amendment Fails by One Vote, Conservative Attempt to Limit Treaty Power Defeated John Bricker · Dwight D. Eisenhower · American Bar Association · U.S. Senate · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1954-01-01 | Eisenhower Convenes Business Leaders to Create Public Affairs Council for Political Mobilization Dwight D. Eisenhower · Public Affairs Council · Effective Citizens Organization | confirmed | |
| 1954-01-01 | Union Membership Reaches Peak of 35% of Workforce, Enabling Shared Prosperity American workers · AFL-CIO · United Auto Workers · United Steelworkers · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1953-10-30 | Eisenhower Approves New Look Defense Policy - Cuts Military Budget by One-Third Despite Pentagon Resistance Dwight D. Eisenhower · John Foster Dulles · Robert B. Carney · Matthew B. Ridgway · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1953-08-19 | CIA Operation Ajax Overthrows Democratic Iranian Government, Installs Shah Dictatorship Central Intelligence Agency · Kermit Roosevelt Jr. · Allen Dulles · John Foster Dulles · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1953-08-13 | Eisenhower Executive Order 10479 Creates Committee on Government Contracts, Weak Anti-Discrimination Enforcement Dwight D. Eisenhower · Richard Nixon · Government Contract Committee · NAACP | confirmed | |
| 1953-06-19 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Executed at Sing Sing, Cold War's Most Controversial Death Penalty Case Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · Roy Cohn · Irving Saypol · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1953-04-16 | Eisenhower's "Chance for Peace" Speech - Every Gun Made Is a Theft From Those Who Hunger Dwight D. Eisenhower | confirmed | |
| 1953-04-13 | CIA MKULTRA Project Officially Begins Central Intelligence Agency · Allen Dulles · Sidney Gottlieb | confirmed | |
| 1953-02-09 | Roy Cohn Establishes Blackmail and Intimidation Network Roy Cohn · Joseph McCarthy · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1953-01-28 | Charles Wilson Confirmed Defense Secretary After "Good for General Motors" Controversy Reveals Corporate-State Fusion Charles Erwin Wilson · Dwight D. Eisenhower · General Motors · Senate Armed Services Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1953-01-01 | FCC Adopts Seven-Station Rule Limiting Broadcast Ownership to Prevent Media Monopoly and Ensure Viewpoint Diversity Federal Communications Commission | confirmed | |
| 1953-01-01 | Operation Mockingbird: CIA Cultivates Hundreds of Journalists at Major American Outlets CIA · Frank Wisner · Cord Meyer · Philip Graham · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1952-11-04 | Truman Creates National Security Agency by Classified Directive, Existence Classified for 23 Years Harry S. Truman · Ralph Canine · National Security Agency · Armed Forces Security Agency | confirmed | |
| 1952-06-27 | McCarran-Walter Act Imposes Racialized Immigration Quotas Over Truman Veto - 85% for Europeans Pat McCarran · Francis E. Walter · Harry S. Truman · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1952-06-02 | Youngstown Sheet & Tube v. Sawyer: Supreme Court Strikes Steel Seizure; Jackson Concurrence Becomes Canonical Executive-Power Framework U.S. Supreme Court · Hugo Black · Robert H. Jackson · Felix Frankfurter · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1952-04-08 | Truman Issues Executive Order 10340 Seizing Nation's Steel Mills; Sets Up Steel Seizure Case Harry S. Truman · Charles Sawyer · United Steelworkers of America · Steel Industry Negotiating Committee · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1952-01-01 | Hollywood Blacklist Reaches Peak with Over 300 Industry Professionals Banned Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American Ideals · Studio executives · House Un-American Activities Committee · American Legion · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1951-12-06 | Truman Commissions Brownell Committee to Investigate AFSA Failure, Blueprint for NSA Created Harry S. Truman · George Brownell · Armed Forces Security Agency · National Security Council | confirmed | |
| 1951-08-01 | Electric Boat Awarded Contract for First Nuclear Submarine USS Nautilus, Launching General Dynamics Electric Boat · General Dynamics Corporation · John Jay Hopkins · U.S. Navy · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1951-06-04 | Dennis v. United States Supreme Court Upholds Smith Act Convictions, Criminalizes Political Advocacy Fred Vinson · U.S. Supreme Court · Eugene Dennis · Communist Party USA · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1951-04-01 | Hollywood Ten Released from Prison but Remain Blacklisted, Industry Persecution Continues Hollywood Ten · Dalton Trumbo · Ring Lardner Jr. · John Howard Lawson · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1951-03-29 | Julius and Ethel Rosenberg Convicted of Espionage in Controversial Red Scare Trial Julius Rosenberg · Ethel Rosenberg · David Greenglass · Ruth Greenglass · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1951-03-12 | Kefauver Committee Televised Hearings Draw 30 Million Viewers - Organized Crime Exposed Estes Kefauver · U.S. Senate · Frank Costello · Virginia Hill | confirmed | |
| 1951-01-01 | CIA Begins Systematic University Funding Through Front Foundations: Academic Capture at Scale CIA · Allen Dulles · MIT · Harvard · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-12-29 | Celler-Kefauver Act Closes Merger Loopholes, Strengthens Government Power to Block Anticompetitive Consolidation U.S. Congress · Representative Emanuel Celler · Senator Estes Kefauver · Harry Truman · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-12-16 | Truman Proclaims National Emergency for Korean War: Declaration Remains Legally Operative for 26 Years Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · George Marshall | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Codifies Red-Scare Surveillance Apparatus Patrick McCarran · Harry S. Truman · Subversive Activities Control Board · Federal Bureau of Investigation · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-23 | McCarran Internal Security Act Passes Over Truman Veto, Requires Communist Registration Pat McCarran · Karl Mundt · Harry Truman · Hubert Humphrey · +5 | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-08 | Defense Production Act Institutionalizes Korean War Industrial Mobilization, Defense Budget Quadruples to $50 Billion Harry Truman · Office of Defense Mobilization · Boeing · Lockheed · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-09-01 | State Loyalty Oaths Spread as California Passes Levering Act, Requires Public Employee Pledges California Legislature · Earl Warren · University of California Board of Regents · American Civil Liberties Union | confirmed | |
| 1950-08-23 | CIA Secretly Purchases Civil Air Transport, Creating Template for Intelligence Front Companies Central Intelligence Agency · Claire Chennault · Whiting Willauer · Civil Air Transport · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-08-01 | State Department Revokes Paul Robeson Passport for Political Views and Soviet Support Paul Robeson · State Department · J. Edgar Hoover · Federal Bureau of Investigation | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-27 | Truman Commits U.S. Forces to Korean War by Executive Action Alone, Establishing 'Police Action' Precedent Harry S. Truman · Dean Acheson · Robert Taft · U.S. Congress · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-26 | Congress for Cultural Freedom Founded with CIA Money: Intellectual Capture Across 35 Countries CIA · Frank Wisner · Michael Josselson · Melvin Lasky · +2 | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-22 | Red Channels Published, Launching Broadcasting Blacklist and Corporate "Smear and Clear" Racket American Business Consultants · John G. Keenan · Kenneth M. Bierly · Theodore C. Kirkpatrick · +6 | confirmed | |
| 1950-06-01 | Margaret Chase Smith Delivers Declaration of Conscience Against McCarthy Witch Hunt Margaret Chase Smith · Joseph McCarthy · Wayne Morse · George Aiken · +4 | confirmed | |
| 1950-05-23 | Treaty of Detroit - GM-UAW Contract Establishes Labor Containment Model General Motors · United Auto Workers · Walter Reuther · Charles Wilson | confirmed | |
| 1950-04-07 | NSC-68 Directive Creates Permanent Military-Industrial Establishment - Defense Spending to Triple Harry S. Truman · Paul Nitze · Dean Acheson · George Kennan · +1 | confirmed | |
| 1950-02-09 | McCarthy Wheeling Speech Claims 205 Communists in State Department Launching Witch Hunt Joseph McCarthy · Harry S. Truman | confirmed | |
| 1950-01-01 | Corporate Anti-Communist Network Coordinates Labor Suppression Through NAM, Chamber of Commerce Infrastructure National Association of Manufacturers · U.S. Chamber of Commerce · American Legion · J.B. Matthews · +2 | confirmed |