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Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957.
After the mid-1950s, U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had spearheaded the campaign, gradually lost his public popularity and credibility after several of his accusations were found to be false.
- Red Channels: The Report of Communist Influence in Radio and Television
- The Alger Hiss Trial
- The Rise of Joe Mccarthy
- The Tydings Committee
- 1950 Midterm Elections
- The Rosenbergs
- The 1952 Election
- Education
- Mccarthy and The Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
- Edward R. Murrow and The See It Now Broadcasts
The investigation of the entertainment industry continued for several years. In June 1950 a right-wing journal called Counterattack published a book with the names of 151 actors, writers, directors, producers, musicians, broadcast journalists, and other entertainers, and the organizations they were linked to which were supposedly communist. No evid...
After his election, Richard Nixon quickly joined HUAC, where he played a crucial role in the investigation of a long-time government worker named Alger Hiss, whose distinguished career chiefly involved liberal causes. Hiss had been part of the US delegation at Yalta where, according to some, the country had been sold out to the Soviets by Roosevelt...
On February 9, 1950, at the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joe McCarthy gave his Lincoln Day speech. Much of it was cut and pasted from speeches and testimony delivered in Washington and already public record. But then McCarthy produced something new. His exact words will never be known, but according to radio and newsp...
The Tydings Committee hearings, chaired by Democratic Senator Millard Tydings, began on March 8, 1950. Democrats hoped to use the hearings to discredit McCarthy. Tydings himself was reported to have said, “Let me have him for three days in public hearings, and he’ll never show his face in the Senate again.” During the hearings, McCarthy moved on fr...
In the 1950 midterm elections, Senator McCarthy campaigned for John Marshall Butler in his race to unseat Senator Millard Tydings, who had chaired the Tydings Committee. McCarthy accused Tydings of “protecting communists” and “shielding traitors.” McCarthy’s staff helped produce a campaign publication containing a photograph doctored to make it app...
McCarthyism got a boost when the trial of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, accused of spying for the Soviet Union, began on March 6, 1951. The main prosecution witness was Ethel’s brother, David Greenglass, who claimed to have passed along atomic bomb-related drawings to Julius, along with notes typed up by Ethel (Greenglass later recanted his testimony...
Having cut deeply into Democratic Party majorities, Republicans set their sights on the 1952 elections, and McCarthyism played a key role. On June 14, 1951, in a Senate speech, Joe McCarthy launched a savage attack against George C. Marshall, the highly respected statesman and general best remembered as President Roosevelt’s Army Chief of Staff dur...
With Republicans now firmly in power, McCarthyism branched out into other areas of American society, including education. Some attacked progressive education reforms with publications like “How Red is the Little Red Schoolhouse?” and, “Progressive Education Increases Delinquency.” Pressure from grass roots organizations had a chilling effect on fre...
In 1953 Senator McCarthy was made chairman of the Senate Committee on Government Operations, which included the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. The mandate of this subcommittee was flexible enough to allow McCarthy to use it for his own investigations of communists in the government. McCarthy first examined allegations of communist...
One of the most prominent attacks on McCarthy’s methods was an episode of the television documentary series See It Now, hosted by journalist Edward R. Murrow, which was broadcast on March 9, 1954. Titled “A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy”, the episode consisted largely of clips of McCarthy speaking. In these clips, McCarthy accuses the Democr...
Popularly known as “McCarthyism” after Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin), who made himself famous in 1950 by claiming that large numbers of Communists had infiltrated the U.S. State Department, the second Red Scare in fact predated and outlasted McCarthy, and its machinery far exceeded the reach of a single politician. “McCarthyism ...
Joseph McCarthy had begun his rampage against “subversives” in the federal government, some real but most of them imagined, during the Truman years, amid the high anxieties of the Cold War.
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With the outbreak of World War II, Joseph McCarthy enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1942, despite being exempt from the draft due to his age and status as an elected official. He served as an intelligence briefing officer for a dive bomber squadron in the Pacific theater.
