Joseph McCarthy

Known for ActingBorn 1908-11-14Died 1957-05-02Grand Chute, Wisconsin, USA

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, 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. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately he was censured by the Senate in 1954 for refusing to cooperate with and abusing members of the committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.Read more

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McCarthy

Greatest Events of World War II in Colour

Coup 53

The Real Charlie Chaplin

USA: danger from the right. Demoniac from Wisconsin

RBG

The Day After Trinity

Hearts and Minds

Good Night, and Good Luck.

Grierson

Heir To An Execution

Ethel

Imminent Threat

McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter

The Soul of America

Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn

Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America

Point of Order!

The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer

The Lavender Scare

Where's My Roy Cohn?

The Lincoln Project