U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, right, speaks to his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, during a hearing of the Senate Investigations Subcommittee in Washington on April 22, 1954. (Byron Rollins/AP) By Kenneth Obel ...

In a scene from the 2005 movie “Good Night, and Good Luck,” CBS News legend Edward R. Murrow is anchoring an episode of "See It Now" about Sen. Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who shot ...

CNN's airing of "Good Night, and Good Luck" will be the first TV broadcast of a live Broadway play. The play is based on the 2005 film of the same name about the 1950s showdown between broadcast ...

American politician Joseph McCarthy, Republican senator from Wisconsin, testifies against the U.S. Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings, Washington, D.C., June 9, 1954.

The play transports viewers back to the 1950s but feels equally relevant in the 2020s with its themes of unrestrained political power, corporate timidity and journalistic integrity.

Drew Pearson rebuked Sen. Joseph McCarthy early and often. ... From the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, his coverage routinely fixated on the Wisconsin senator. Advertisement.

In those ways, it is reminiscent of the McCarthy era in the 1940s and 50s, when intense anti-communist suspicion among US government officials, spearheaded by senator Joseph McCarthy, ...