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e. 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 ...
Senator Joseph McCarthy, Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, 1950 From Congressional Record of the Senate, 81st Congress 2nd Session, February 20, 1950. 1954-1957. Ladies and gentlemen, tonight as we celebrate the one hundred and forty-first birthday of one of the greatest men in American history, I would like to be able to talk about what a glorious day today is in the history of the world.
The paranoia about the internal Communist threat—what we call the Red Scare—reached a fever pitch between 1950 and 1954, when Senator Joe McCarthy of Wisconsin, a right-wing Republican, launched a series of highly publicized probes. Journalists, intellectuals, and even many of Eisenhower’s friends and close advisers agonized over what they saw as Ike’s timid approach to McCarthyism.
14. Okt. 2014 · Joseph McCarthy’s “list,” 1950. It was on Feb. 9, 1950, that McCarthy — who had dubbed himself “Tailgunner Joe” for acts of World War II bravery he did not in fact commit — told a crowd of 275 at the Ohio County Republican Women’s Club that the U.S. State Department was “thoroughly infested with communists” and brandished ...
Speeches (Released Texts, drafts, and related correspondence), 1942-1957: Series 4: Sound Recordings, 1946-Series 5: Film and Video Recordings, 1951-Series 6: Bills Introduced, 1947-1957: Series 7: Publications by Joseph McCarthy, 1947-1957: Series 8: Published Hearings and Reports of Senate Committees: Series 9: Memorabilia: Series 10
On February 9, 1950, junior Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, that would thrust him into the national spotlight. This scathing tirade is perhaps best known for McCarthy’s claim that he had with him a list of 205 known communists who were presently working in the U.S. State Department.
2. Juni 2023 · Enter Senator Joseph McCarthy, whose rhetoric explicitly associated Communists and gay people, turning the slow burn of repression into a firestorm. On February 9, 1950, McCarthy delivered his now-famous speech in which he claimed to have a list of 205 known Communists working at the State Department.
