Iowa native Joseph Welch said, "Have you no decency, sir?" and we need people with his courage today, writes Thomas Doughty.

Joseph McCarthy had engineered hearings investigating the Army for ... but one current politician lives in the 1950s: Trump, still calling people “communists.” McCarthy died at 48, his poor ...

This climate of fear recalls the anticommunist paranoia of the 1950s and its crucial turning ... With that speech, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy seized the nation’s attention and would ...

during the Army-McCarthy hearings. Army counsel Joseph Welch famously rebuked McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” — puncturing his aura of invincibility. But other ...

As an old guy, it brought back memories of TV in its infancy in the 1950s ... Senate or House Committee hearings. One of those was led by Sen. Joseph McCarthy, aided by his sidekick, the lawyer ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy “comes along really chronologically halfway through the story [in the early 1950s], and there ... through stormy congressional hearings, eager to sweep up any suspected ...

Murrow, the veteran journalist who was a vocal critic of Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s investigations in the 1950s. The play is an examination of the role that the media plays in the world of politics ...

“Man was born to do something,” she told them time and again in the McCarthy farm home near Appleton, Wis. Last week, in the U.S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., her fifth-born, Joseph ...

Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and the Red Scare hearings of the early 1950s. McCarthy’s legacy and McCarthyism are alive today in the MAGA movement. The constant attacks, the refusal to admit a ...

In February 1950, Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy began a four-year crusade of baseless accusations against alleged communists in government, academia and the entertainment industry.