Joseph Raymond McCarthy was a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin between 1947 and 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period of extreme anti-communist suspicion inspired by the tensions of the Cold War. He was noted for making unsubstantiated claims that there were large numbers of Communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers inside the federal government. Wikipedia
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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy held Congressional hearings in the early 1950s to eradicate suspected Communist infiltration of the U.S. government. His hearings were widely thought of as modern witch hunts. history1900s.about.com/cs/joemccarthy/
Fifty years after Senator Joseph McCarthy began a communist witch hunt, the Senate has released transcripts of the secret hearings he held to try to intimidate witnesses before they appeared in public. news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/3002239.stm
McCarthy-Welch Exchange "Have You No Sense of Decency"delivered 9 June 1954 during the Army-McCarthy Hearings in Washington, D.C. www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/welch-mccarthy.html
In the early 1950s the United States political scene was dominated by a fear of communist expansion and influence. This fear was exploited by many a politician, the foremost was Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. www.infoage.org/mccarthy.html
...R S T U V W X Y Z Joseph R. McCarthy Papers,1930- Access Note Series 1 General Correspondence , 1939-1946 Series 2 Court Records, 1946, 1951-1956 Series 3 Speeches (Released ... www.marquette.edu/library/collections/archives/Mss/JRM/ms...
The answer is that McCarthys thesis was incorrect, and Coulter is just wrong about his political impact. frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=8793
The late Joseph R. McCarthy, a United States Senator from Wisconsin, was in many ways the most gifted demagogue ever bred on these shores. www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/mccarthy-bio.html