The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy” and “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon.” It’s laudable when ...

“Have you no sense of decency?” Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, asked Senator Joseph McCarthy on live TV during the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954. In his efforts to root out ...

Drew Pearson rebuked Sen. Joseph McCarthy early and often. History gives him little credit for it. ... it is my opinion that Senator McCarthy is way off base,” a February 1950 column said.

Federal Judge William Young’s recent words from the bench sounded a lot like Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke of Senator Joe ...

Set in 1953, it focuses on Murrow's ferocious battle with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, network sponsors and even his employers as he tries to expose the tactics of the House Un-American Activities ...

At the start of 1950, Joseph McCarthy’s political future did not look promising. McCarthy had been elected senator from Wisconsin in 1946, after switching his party affiliation from Democrat to ...

CNN’s Anderson Cooper interviews actor George Clooney on the set of his Broadway play, “Good Night and Good Luck” which is focused on Edward R. Murrow’s famous battle with Senator Joseph ...

Few newsrooms have the courage to hire another Edward R. Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the powerful Senator Joseph McCarthy. Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor emeritus at ...

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.

He’d met Ed Murrow, the legendary CBS newsman whose broadcast in 1954 exposing the rabid demagoguery of Wisconsin U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy helped sink McCarthy and bring the nation back from ...