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.

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.

"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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It has been 70 years since Edward R. Murrow’s withering broadcast report about Cold War demagogue Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called television’s “finest half-hour.” ...