That vivid imprecation, one of the most telling in American history, was uttered by a crusty Boston lawyer named Joe Welch to Joseph McCarthy, the inflammatory Republican senator from Wisconsin. Many ...

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. It was an era ...

The 1954 attorney for the U.S. Army, asked Sen. Joe McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Same can be asked of today ...

U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, center, consults two of his aides, Roy Cohn, left, and Don Surine, during the afternoon session of the McCarthy-Army hearing in April 1954. Credit: AP file Jonathan P. Baird ...

It was an electric, historic moment. I was 13 and watching the Army-McCarthy hearings with my mother in June, 1954. Sen. Joseph McCarthy had engineered hearings investigating the Army for supposedly ...

The play “Conscience” from RKP Productions and Anchorage Community Theater opened on May 16 and runs through June 1st. The performance follows senator Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power during the Red ...

The political theorist Corey Robin examines the role of vengeance in the right’s response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. By ‘The Ezra Klein Show’ The political theorist Corey Robin walks ...

On June 9, 1950, four months after his breakout speech about Communists in the federal government, Joseph McCarthy was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Republican Party's convention in Milwaukee.

John Joseph McCarthy, Jr. John Joseph McCarthy, Jr., a resident of Long Beach for 63 years, entered eternal life on July 2, 2009. John was born in Rock Island, Illinois on July 27, 1920, the second of ...

McCarthy, USMC, Lt. Col. John Joseph (Jack) Lt. Col. John (Jack) Joseph McCarthy, USMC October 31, 1928 – February 1, 2019 Lieutenant Colonel John (Jack) Joseph McCarthy, USMC, passed away peacefully ...