The Morning Show - 06/17/19 - The Lavender Scare

Our guest, Josh Howard, is the director of a fascinating documentary that airs tomorrow (Tuesday) night on PBS called "The Lavender Scare." The title refers to a troubling chapter in our history that was touched off by an executive order by newly-elected president Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1953 that called for the firing of all known gay men and women employed by the Federal government. (The rationale was that such persons might be vulnerable to blackmail by entities wishing ill on the United States.) The few brave souls who dared to challenge this helped give birth to the gay rights movement.