Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

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 ...

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 ...

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., taken in 1954. McCarthy charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era" on February 9, 1950. File Photo/UPI ...

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 ...

"I have no information that Schlesinger is a Communist but if he were he would ridicule religion and advise that Communists be allowed to teach in our schools just as he has," Senator Joseph R.

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 ...

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 ...

Joseph McCarthy The Post-Crescent ... The wartime alliance between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had proven to be a marriage of convenience. With the ink barely dry on the treaties ending the war ...