It has been 70 years since Edward R. Murrow’s withering broadcast report about Cold War demagogue Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called television’s “finest half-hour.” ...

McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: Joseph ...

Hank Greenspun confronts Sen. Joseph McCarthy during a Republican rally at the War Memorial Building in Las Vegas in October 1952. McCarthy unintentionally calls Greenspun an ex-communist during ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin took advantage of ... Due process under the law was one of the victims of this Cold War hysteria. A fire department officer wrongly accused of membership ...

Joseph McCarthy The Post-Crescent ... themselves locked in a battle over the course of postwar events. The Cold War had begun. As the relationship between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. deteriorated ...

Joseph McCarthy grows up on a Wisconsin farm where ... military service to launch a successful Senate campaign. As the Cold War intensifies, McCarthy seizes the opportunity to exploit public ...

At the height of the Cold War, Canada joined its southern ... In the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthy led the communist witch-hunts in the 1950s. He convinced many Americans that members ...

Senator Joseph ... McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most high-profile target was General George Marshall, who was thought of as a hero in America for his efforts in World War Two.