Detroit History: Commie-Free Car Builders

When Detroit's greatest union leader assumed full leadership of the UAW at the dawn of the Cold War 65 years ago, he cleared the ranks of Communist infiltrators the way only someone who had personally lived under Stalin's rule could have.

WWJ's Joe Donovan says that's why Reds like dictator Nikita Khrushchev fantasized about getting Walter Reuther's neck into a hangman's noose.

Get the whole story in this edition of Joe's Detroit history report: