Few newsrooms have the courage to hire another Edward R. Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the ...

The televised Army-McCarthy hearings showed the senator bullying witnesses and presenting doctored evidence. Journalists ...

That gave rise to the Army-McCarthy hearings, "broadcast 'gavel to gavel'" on the Dumont and ABC television networks between April and June. "The Army-McCarthy hearings were the first nationally ...

entered the gaudy Senate caucus room for the opening of the Army-McCarthy hearings. McCarthy pressured on behalf of former aide, Army says WASHINGTON, April 22, 1954 (UP) - Maj. Gen. Miles W.

Nevertheless, “’Red Scare’ resonates because it speaks so directly to our current quandary of far left and far right.” Also, ...

Finally, during one of the Army-McCarthy hearings in June 1954, Joseph Welch, the chief counsel for the U.S. Army, stood up to him: “Until this moment, Senator (McCarthy), I think I have never ...

From that point on the Army-McCarthy hearings degenerated into a series of increasingly unfounded and paranoid accusations. Eisenhower quietly exerted pressure on Republican senators to go forward ...

The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations between April 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of ...

being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most high-profile target was General George Marshall, who was ...