Scaring people into taking drastic action against innocent people.
John Proctor was accused and hanged during the Salem Witch Trials.
He was placed on the Hollywood blacklist.
They weren't. In fact the whole thing was a mass hysteria about nothing.
McCarthy ran on a Democratic anti-war platform during the 1968 presidential race.
The Salem witch trials happened during the year 1692, the first to be executed was Bridget Bishop. In total 19 people were killed after being found guilty of witch craft, this is not counting the many people that they suspected died in jail.
They were released from jail. This was the case for Abigail and Deliverance Hobbs as well as Tituba.
Mary Warren was the seventeen year old servant of John and Elizabeth Proctor. She was one of the accusers, and the only one who, during the trials, said she had been lying. After the trials, we do not know what happened to her.
Werner Fischer was sentenced to life in prison during the Nuremberg Trials for his involvement in medical experiments on prisoners at Auschwitz concentration camp. He was found guilty of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
He was 74 during the trials in 1692.
William Stoughton was the head judge during the trials. Thomas Danforth was the main government official involved.William Stoughton was the lead judge during the trials.
During the era the trials occurred during, sporting was used to mean fun. In reference to the trials, it was used by the opponents of the trials to express the possiblity that bored girls were lying about afflictions to have fun.
Nineteen people were hanged during the Salem witch trials.