With that speech, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy ... a struggle with communism that seemed destined to end in nuclear conflict. The blame for this terrifying scenario, McCarthy declared ...

Dramatically waving a sheaf of papers, Joseph "Joe ... In this regard, let me quote the noted journalist Richard H. Rovere, who covered McCarthy at the height of his communist-hunting ...

In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

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 ... Harris: I have always been opposed to the Communist Party, to the Soviet-controlled mechanisms . . . McCarthy: Have you always been antiCommunist?

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right ... giving more credibility to McCarthy. McCarthy’s efforts to find anyone linked to communism became known as the ‘witch hunts’. Over 100 university lecturers ...

In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private ...

Such sentiments were eagerly exploited by politicians seeking to fan the flames of communist hysteria. Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in ...

In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy declared to Congress that Far East scholar Owen Lattimore was a "top Russian spy." Lattimore tried to clear his name before two congressional committees.