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 supposedly ...
In 1954, a Boston lawyer named Joseph Welch was hired by the Army to be its chief counsel before a Senate committee that was hunting communists. Senator Joe McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, chaired ...
Army Counsel Joseph Welch looks angry and waves a hand as he demands that Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.), not try to serve as both witness and judge in the McCarthy-Army row, June 16, 1954. Their ...
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 era ...
“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” This famous question was posed to U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1954 by attorney Joseph Welch during the Army-McCarthy hearings. It is widely credited with helping ...
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 era ...