A New Film Challenges the James Webb Telescope's Controversial Name

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A New Film Challenges the James Webb Telescope's Controversial Name
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The documentary scrutinizes the former NASA administrator's role during an era of homophobic policies.

: the powerful new space telescope’s name. NASA officials named the flagship space probe after former administrator James Webb, who helmed the agency and served in the State Department in the 1950s and ’60s and is alleged to have been complicit in enforcing policies that discriminated against gay and lesbian government workers during the “Lavender Scare.”

Jackson’s documentary delves into problematic yet widespread government policies during the Cold War, when agency workers—including people at NASA—who were suspected of being LGBTQ were deemed a security risk and were investigated, interrogated, pushed to resign, or fired. It also dives into documents released in a report in

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