Those words, spoken by Margaret Chase Smith, freshman senator from Maine, never mentioned Joseph McCarthy by name, but it was abundantly clear to all who listened that her criticisms were leveled ...

A few weeks before the announcement in the wee hours of July 1 that Paramount Global and CBS were settling a widely derided ...

The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy” and “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon.” It’s laudable when ...

The 47-year-old Republican Senator — the most controversial public figure of America’s postwar years — had been in serious condition for five days, ... Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) appeared on the "Longines Chronoscope" interview program. Topics included the presidential and senatorial campaigns in Wisconsin, communists in the federal ...

Joseph McCarthy had begun his rampage against “subversives” in the federal government, some real but most of them imagined, during the Truman years, amid the high anxieties of the Cold War.

Michael Shannon will play the fiery, controversial Republican U.S. senator Joseph McCarthy in a feature film about his life called “McCarthy.” The film will be presented to buyers at the ...

Drew Pearson rebuked Sen. Joseph McCarthy early and often. History gives him little credit for it. ... it is my opinion that Senator McCarthy is way off base,” a February 1950 column said.

Set in 1953, it focuses on Murrow's ferocious battle with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, network sponsors and even his employers as he tries to expose the tactics of the House Un-American Activities ...