Red Scare

The Red Scare was two distinct periods of anti-communist activism in the United States, the first occurring between 1917 to 1920, and the second occurring during the late 1940's to the late 1950's. One activity common during these periods were rallies warning and protesting about communist threats to capitalism in the US.

One such rally occurs in the film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, in which two cars containing communist spies are chasing both Indiana Jones and Mutt Williams, ending outside the Marshall campus. It is here that students and general members of the public are waving signs, one reading "Better Dead Than Red", which causes one of the cars to crash into a statue of the deceased Marcus Brody.