In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

Trump, he realized, is essentially the latest incarnation of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator from the 1950s who leveraged national anxieties about communism to brutalize his political enemies.

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt ... McCarthy’s efforts to find anyone linked to communism became known as the ‘witch hunts’. Over 100 university lecturers lost ...

The first six months of 1953 was a period to warm the cockles of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy’s heart. He bounced from headline to headline, denouncing the use of Communist books in U.S.-sponsored ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy made headline news after he proclaimed that he had a list of Communists in the State Department. Browse our selection of Herblock editorial cartoons and other graphic art ...

"Are you, or have you ever been, a Communist?" It's been almost 70 years since America first awoke to that famous question. It was February 1950 when Joseph McCarthy, the Republican Senator from ...

Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called ... short-circuit his relentless drive to rid the federal government of communist sympathizers. The 70th anniversary of the program that aired ...

Wikipedia* On the C-SPAN Networks: Joseph Raymond McCarthy has two videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1952 Broadcast. Most common tag: Communism. This is a 1952 episode ...

In order to counter a scheduled appearance at their campus by the Communist-baiting Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invited Brandeis Professor Max ...

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin ... audience that is frightening called Greenspun "an ex-convict" and "an admitted Communist, publisher of the Las Vegas 'Daily Worker.'" Women shuddered and strong ...