LOS ANGELES — Actor and activist Jane Fonda is leading the relaunch of a pro-First Amendment group that was first organized during the Red Scare during the Cold War, saying the "forces of repression" have returned.

The Committee for the First Amendment was originally founded in the 1940s by a group of Hollywood stars that included Fonda's father, actor Henry Fonda, along with others including Lucille Ball, Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. The organization was created to oppose the now infamous House Un-American Activities Committee, which investigated suspected communists in the U.S. after World War II.

Many Hollywood stars at the time were accused of being communists or communist sympathizers, and although many of the accusations were proven false, the accusations derailed many ca

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