Abner Green, executive secretary of the American Committee for the Protection of Foreign Born (ACPFB), was sentenced by a New ...

McCarthy’s efforts to find anyone linked to communism became known as the ‘witch hunts’. Over 100 university lecturers lost their jobs. Over 320 Hollywood actors were blacklisted ...

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.

Only eternal vigilance can protect us against Communism and its infiltration into our way of life." In the United States, Senator Joseph McCarthy led the communist witch-hunts in the 1950s.

Communism didn't win the Cold War ... so America can say "no" to them every single time. Daniel McCarthy is the editor of Modern Age: A Conservative Review. To read more by Daniel McCarthy ...

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.

His qualifications for that role are that he had a half-billion dollars to donate to the campaign of Donald Trump. He was never elected by anyone. Like the anti-communist campaigns of the McCarthy era ...

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 ...

This communist witch hunt therefore became known as ‘McCarthyism’. The term also refers to outlandish, sensationalist, unproven accusations of communist sympathy and connections. McCarthy's ...

Again disagreeing with the President, Senator McCarthy reiterated his belief that the influence of Communism in goverment will be the key issue in the 1954 and 1956 political campaigns.

McCarthy’s heart. He bounced from headline to headline, denouncing the use of Communist books in U.S.-sponsored overseas libraries, challenging with cloakroom innuendo the appointment of Charles ...