Chief Senate counsel representing the Army Joseph Welch (left) being questioned by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy-Army hearings in 1954. (Wikimedia Commons / US Senate ...

This mattered because it was his article that ignited McCarthyism. In the eighth paragraph, the reporter repeated the claim from the speech text that McCarthy had “a list of 205” spies ...

Drew Pearson rebuked Sen. Joseph McCarthy early and often. ... From the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, his coverage routinely fixated on the Wisconsin senator. Advertisement.

In February 1950, Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy began a four-year crusade of baseless accusations against alleged communists in government, academia and the entertainment industry. It was an ...

Donald Trump, a disciple of Roy Cohn, and the MAGA movement are the modern-day embodiment of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and the Red Scare hearings of the early 1950s.

The End. In the summer of 1954 a committee under Utah’s Republican Arthur Watkins met to determine whether Joe McCarthy should be censured. This time the hearings were quieter, and Joe had ...

News about Joseph R. McCarthy, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Senator Joseph McCarthy “comes along really chronologically halfway through the story [in the early 1950s], and there’s a lot that happened before he was even on the scene,” says author Clay ...

In the 1950s, Edward R. Murrow, on his TV show “See it Now,” cried out, in effect, that, “The Emperor has no clothes,” and the fall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy began. We need someone like that ...

On June 9, 1950, four months after his breakout speech about Communists in the federal government, Joseph McCarthy was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Republican Party's convention in Milwaukee.

Tennessee Republican senator Marsha Blackburn’s probe into the diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programmes of the Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville — and the suggestion ...