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Though CBS legend Edward R. Murrow is given credit, he wasn’t the first muckraking journalist to question Joseph McCarthy’s communist witch hunts
Murrow’s withering broadcast report about Cold War demagogue Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called television’s “finest half-hour.” Legendary though it may be ...
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McCarthy, 47, Succumbs To Hepatitis in Hospital
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy died yesterday at 6:02 p.m. of acute hepatitis. He was 47 years old. The two-term junior senator from Wisconsin, whose activities as chairman of the Senate Permanent ...
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McCarthy Red Hunt
WASHINGTON, March 8, 1950 (UP) - Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., testified today that a former U.S. woman representative to the United Nations has been affiliated with 28 Communist front ...
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Joseph Raymond McCarthy
This is a 1952 episode of a public affairs interview program called “Longines Chronoscope” which aired on CBS between 1951 an… Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) appeared on the “Longines ...
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Kamin Subpoena Obtained Without Written Evidence, McCarthy Admits
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy yesterday admitted under cross-examination that no written evidence in his subcommittee's files influenced his decision to call Leon J. Kamin '49 before it in January ...
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INVESTIGATIONS: Toward a McCarthaginian Peace
The first six months of 1953 was a period to warm the cockles of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s heart. He bounced from headline to headline, denouncing the use of Communist books in U.S.-sponsored ...
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Progressive Neo-McCarthyism
The stifling intolerance that Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI) and his ideological allies fostered during the 1950s went far beyond the effort to purge government employees suspected of being part ...