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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., testified today that a former U.S. woman representative to the United Nations has been affiliated with 28 Communist front organizations.Sen. McCarthy, first witness ...

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 ...

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 ...

Such sentiments were eagerly exploited by politicians seeking to fan the flames of communist hysteria. Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in ...

Launching with three powerful narratives: Joseph McCarthy, whose anti-communist crusade terrorized 1950s America; media titan William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper mogul whose empire shaped ...