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.

It was an electric, historic moment. I was 13 and watching the Army-McCarthy hearings with my mother in June, 1954. Sen. Joseph McCarthy had engineered hearings investigating the Army for ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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

American politician Joseph McCarthy, Republican senator from Wisconsin, testifies against the U.S. Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings, Washington, D.C., June 9, 1954.

CNN's airing of "Good Night, and Good Luck" will be the first TV broadcast of a live Broadway play. The play is based on the 2005 film of the same name about the 1950s showdown between broadcast ...

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.

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