Eartha Kitt (Jan 17, 1927-December 25, 2008), who is beautifully remembered by Teddy Partridge, was blacklisted for these remarks, made in 1968 to First Lady Johnson at the White House, when asked what she thought of the Vietnam War:

You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the street. They will take pot, and they will get high. They don’t want to go to school because they’re going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietnam . . .