In a dramatic confrontation, Joseph Welch, special counsel for the U.S. Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during hearings on whether communism has infiltrated the U.S. armed forces. Welch’s verbal assault marked the end of McCarthy’s power during the anticommunist hysteria of the Red Scare in America.
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Senator McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) experienced a meteoric rise to fame and power in the U.S. Senate when he charged in February 1950 that “hundreds” of “known communists” were in the Department of State. In the years that followed, McCarthy became the acknowledged leader of the so-called Red Scare, a time when millions of Americans became convinced that communists had infiltrated every aspect of American life. Behind closed-door hearings, McCarthy bullied, lied, and smeared his way to power, destroying many careers and lives in the process. Prior to 1953, the Republican Party tolerated his antics because his attacks were directed against the Democratic administration of Harry S. Truman. When Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower entered the White House in 1953, however, McCarthy’s recklessness and increasingly erratic behavior became unacceptable and the senator saw his clout slowly ebbing away. In a last-ditch effort to revitalize his anticommunist crusade, McCarthy made a crucial mistake. He charged in early 1954 that the U.S. Army was “soft” on communism. As Chairman of the Senate Government Operations Committee, McCarthy opened hearings into the Army.
Joseph N. Welch, a soft-spoken lawyer with an incisive wit and intelligence, represented the Army. During the course of weeks of hearings, Welch blunted every one of McCarthy’s charges. The senator, in turn, became increasingly enraged, bellowing “point of order, point of order,” screaming at witnesses, and declaring that one highly decorated general was a “disgrace” to his uniform. On June 9, 1954, McCarthy again became agitated at Welch’s steady destruction of each of his arguments and witnesses. In response, McCarthy charged that Frederick G. Fisher, a young associate in Welch’s law firm, had been a long-time member of an organization that was a “legal arm of the Communist Party.” Welch was stunned. As he struggled to maintain his composure, he looked at McCarthy and declared, “Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or your recklessness.” It was then McCarthy’s turn to be stunned into silence, as Welch asked, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” The audience of citizens and newspaper and television reporters burst into wild applause. Just a week later, the hearings into the Army came to a close. McCarthy, exposed as a reckless bully, was officially condemned by the U.S. Senate for contempt against his colleagues in December 1954. During the next two-and-a-half years McCarthy spiraled into alcoholism. Still in office, he died in 1957.
The thing is, as it turned out to be shown later, that McCarthy was right.
At least for the most part.
“McCarthy was right”
About what??? His list of 205 communists in the State Department, or Cohn’s list of 130 communists in the defense industry???
By the way, we are still waiting to see those lists!
You should try learning some history. Joe McCarthy had access to the encrypted Soviet diplomatic cables because the code was broken by U.S. intelligence. THAT had the names of the Communist spies. He couldn’t reveal his source because it was a fountain of information for the U.S. Only in the 1990s was it revealed to the American people that the code has been broken. Oh, you want the list. I got your list right here:
John Abt, United States Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; special assistant to the United States Attorney General, United States Department of Justice
Solomon Adler, United States Department of the Treasury
Lydia Altschuler
Thomas Babin, Yugoslavia Section Office of Strategic Services
Marion Bachrach, (*) congressional office manager of Congressman John Bernard of the Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party
Rudy Baker
Vladimir Barash
Joel Barr, United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories
Alice Barrows, United States Office of Education
Theodore Bayer, President, Russky Golos Publishing
George Beiser, National Research Establishment, Research and Development Board; engineer Bell Aircraft
Aleksandr Belenky, General Electric
Cedric Belfrage, journalist; British Security Coordination
Elizabeth Bentley
Marion Davis Berdecio, Office of Naval Intelligence; Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
Josef Berger, (*) Democratic National Committee
Joseph Bernstein, Board of Economic Warfare
Walter Sol Bernstein, Hollywood Screenwriter, listed on the MPAA’s Hollywood blacklist
T.A. Bisson, Board of Economic Warfare
Thomas Lessing Black, Bureau of Standards United States Department of Commerce
Samuel Bloomfield, (*) Eastern European Division, Research and Analysis Division, Office of Strategic Services
Robinson Bobrow
Ralph Bowen, (*) United States Department of State
Abraham Brothman, chemist
Earl Browder, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the United States
Rose Browder
William Browder [1]
Michael Burd, Head of Midland Export Corporation
Paul Burns, employee of TASS
Norman Bursler, United States Department of Justice Anti-Trust Division
James Callahan
Sylvia Callen
Frank Coe, Assistant Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; Special Assistant to the United States Ambassador in London; Assistant to the Executive Director, Board of Economic Warfare; Assistant Administrator, Foreign Economic Administration
Lona Cohen
Morris Cohen
Eugene Franklin Coleman, RCA electrical engineer
Anna Colloms, New York City schoolteacher
Judith Coplon, Foreign Agents Registration section, United States Department of Justice
Lauchlin Currie, Administrative Assistant to President Roosevelt; Deputy Administrator of Foreign Economic Administration; Special Representative to China
Byron Darling, United States Rubber Company; United States Office of Scientific Research & Development
Eugene Dennis, General Secretary CPUSA
Samuel Dickstein, United States Congressman from New York; New York State Supreme Court Justice
Martha Dodd, daughter of United States Ambassador to Germany William Dodd, Popular Front
William Dodd Jr., son of William Dodd, United States Ambassador to Germany; Democratic Congressional candidate
Laurence Duggan, head of United States Department of State Division of American Republics
Demetrius Dvoichenko-Markov, U.S. Army
Eufrosina Dvoichenko-Markov
Frank Dziedzik, National Oil Products Company
Nathan Einhorn, Executive Secretary of American Newspaper Guild
Max Elitcher, (*) Naval Ordinance Section, National Bureau of Standards
Jacob Epstein, International Brigades
Jack Fahy, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Board of Economic Warfare; United States Department of the Interior
Linn Markley Farish, Liaison Officer with Tito’s Yugoslav Partisan forces, Office of Strategic Services
Edward Fitzgerald, War Production Board
Charles Flato, Board of Economic Warfare; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor
Isaac Folkoff
Jane Foster, Board of Economic Warfare; Office of Strategic Services; Netherlands Study Unit
Zalmond Franklin
Isabel Gallardo
Boleslaw Gebert, National Officer of Polonia Society of International Workers Order
Harrison George, senior CPUSA leadership, editor of People’s Daily World
Rebecca Getzoff
Harold Glasser, Director, Division of Monetary Research, United States Department of the Treasury; United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration; War Production Board; Advisor on North African Affairs Committee; United States Treasury Representative to the Allied High Commission in Italy
Bela Gold, Assistant Head of Program Surveys, Bureau of Agricultural Economics, United States Department of Agriculture; Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Economic Programs in Foreign Economic Administration
Harry Gold
Sonia Steinman Gold, Division of Monetary Research United States Department of Treasury Department; United States House of Representatives Select Committee on Interstate Migration; United States Bureau of Employment Security
Elliot Goldberg, engineer for an oil equipment company in New York
Jacob Golos
George Gorchoff
Gerald Graze, United States Department of State
David Greenglass
Ruth Greenglass
Joseph Gregg, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; United States Department of State
Theodore Hall
Maurice Halperin, Chief of Latin American Division, Research and Analysis Section, Office of Strategic Services; United States Department of State
Kitty Harris
William Henwood, Standard Oil of California
Clarence Hiskey, University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, Manhattan Project
Alger Hiss, Director of the Office of Special Political Affairs United States Department of State
Donald Hiss, United States Department of State; United States Department of Labor; United States Department of the Interior
Louis Horvitz, International Brigades
Rosa Isaak, Executive Secretary of the American-Russian Institute
Herman R. Jacobson, Avery Manufacturing Company
Bella Joseph, motion picture division of Office of Strategic Services
Emma Harriet Joseph, (*) Office of Strategic Services
Julius Joseph, National Resources Planning Board; Federal Security Agency; Social Security Board; Office of Emergency Management; Labor War Manpower Commission; Deputy Chief, Far Eastern section (Japanese Intelligence) Office of Strategic Services
Gertrude Kahn
David Karr, Office of War Information; chief aide to journalist Drew Pearson
Joseph Katz
Helen Grace Scott Keenan, Office of the Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Office of United States Chief Counsel for Prosecution of Axis War Criminals, Office of Strategic Services
Mary Jane Keeney, Board of Economic Warfare; Allied Staff on Reparations; United Nations
Philip Keeney, Office of the Coordinator of Information (later OSS)
Alexander Koral, former engineer of the municipality of New York
Helen Koral
Samuel Krafsur, journalist TASS
Charles Kramer, Senate Subcommittee on War Mobilization; Office of Price Administration; National Labor Relations Board; Senate Subcommittee on Wartime Health and Education; Agricultural Adjustment Administration; United States Senate Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Senate Labor and Public Welfare Committee; Democratic National Committee
Christina Krotkova, Office of War Information
Sergey Nikolaevich Kurnakov, Daily Worker
Stephen Laird, Hollywood Producer; Time Magazine Reporter; Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) correspondent
Rudy Lambert, California Communist party labor director and head of security
Oskar Lange
Trude Lash, United Nations Human Rights Committee
Richard Lauterbach, Time Magazine
Duncan Lee, counsel to General William Donovan, head of Office of Strategic Services
Michael Leshing, superintendent of Twentieth Century Fox film laboratories
Leo Levanas, Shell Oil Company
Morris Libau
Helen Lowry
Willaim Mackey
Harry Magdoff, Chief of the Control Records Section of War Production Board and Office of Emergency Management; Bureau of Research and Statistics, WTB; Tools Division, War Production Board; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, United States Department of Commerce; Statistics Division Works Progress Administration
William Malisoff, owner of United Laboratories of New York
Hede Massing, journalist
Robert Menaker
Floyd Miller
James Walter Miller, United States Post Office, Office of Censorship
Robert Miller, Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Near Eastern Division United States Department of State
Robert Minor, Office of Strategic Services
Leonard Mins, Russian Section of the Research and Analysis Division of the Office of Strategic Services
Arthur Moosen
Vladimir Morkovin, Office of Naval Research
Boris Moros, Hollywood Producer
Nicola Napoli, president of Artkino, distributor of Soviet films
Franz Leopold Neumann, consultant at Board of Economic Warfare; Deputy Chief of the Central European Section of Office of Strategic Services; First Chief of Research of the Nuremberg War Crimes Tribunal
Melita Norwood
Eugénie Olkhine
Rose Olsen
Frank Oppenheimer, (*) physicist
Nicholas W. Orloff
Nadia Morris Osipovich
Edna Patterson
William Perl, National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) at Langley Army Air Base; Lewis Flight Propulsion Laboratory
Victor Perlo, chief of the Aviation Section of the War Production Board; Head of Branch in Research Section, Office of Price Administration Department of Commerce; Division of Monetary Research Department of Treasury; Brookings Institution
Burton Perry
Aleksandr N. Petroff, Curtiss-Wright Aircraft
Emma Phillips
Paul Pinsky
William Pinsly, Curtiss-Wright Aircraft, Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory
William Plourde, engineer with Bell Aircraft
Vladimir Pozner, head Russian Division photographic section United States War Department
Lee Pressman Department of Agriculture; Works Progress Administration; General Counsel Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO)
Mary Price, stenographer for Walter Lippmann of the New York Herald
Esther Trebach Rand, United Palestine Appeal
Bernard Redmont, head of the Foreign News Bureau Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs; Moscow and Paris Bureau Chief, CBS News
Peter Rhodes, Foreign Broadcasting Monitoring Service, Allied Military Headquarters London; Chief of the Atlantic News Service, Office of War Information
Stephen Rich
Kenneth Richardson, World Wide Electronics
Ruth Rivkin, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Samuel Rodman, United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Allan Rosenberg, Board of Economic Warfare; Chief of the Economic Institution Staff, Foreign Economic Administration; Civil Liberties Subcommittee, Senate Committee on Education and Labor; Railroad Retirement Board; Councel to the Secretary of the National Labor Relations Board
Julius Rosenberg, United States Army Signal Corps Laboratories
Ethel Rosenberg
Amadeo Sabatini, International Brigades
Alfred Sarant, United States Army Signal Corps laboratories
Saville Sax, Young Communist League
Marion Schultz, chair of the United Russian Committee for Aid to the Native Country
Bernard Schuster
Milton Schwartz
John Scott, Office of Strategic Services
Ricardo Setaro, journalist/writer Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS)
Charles Bradford Sheppard, Hazeltine Electronics
Anne Sidorovich
Michael Sidorovich
George Silverman, Director of the Bureau of Research and Information Services, US Railroad Retirement Board; Economic Adviser and Chief of Analysis and Plans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Material and Services, War Department
Greg Silvermaster, Chief Planning Technician, Procurement Division, United States Department of the Treasury; Chief Economist, War Assets Administration; Director of the Labor Division, Farm Security Administration; Board of Economic Warfare; Reconstruction Finance Corporation Department of Commerce
Helen Silvermaster
Morton Sobell, General Electric
Jack Soble
Robert Soblen
Johannes Steele, journalist and radio commentator
Alfred Kaufman Stern, Popular Front
I. F. Stone, (*) journalist for The Nation
Augustina Stridsberg
Anna Louise Strong, journalist for The Atlantic Monthly, Harper’s, The Nation, Guardian (NY) and Asia
Helen Tenney, Office of Strategic Services
Mikhail Tkach, editor of the Ukrainian Daily News
Lud Ullman, delegate to United Nations Charter meeting and Bretton Woods conference; Division of Monetary Research, Department of Treasury; Material and Services Division, Air Corps Headquarters, Pentagon
Irving Charles Velson, Brooklyn Navy Yard; American Labor Party candidate for New York State Senate
Margietta Voge
George Vuchinich, 2nt. United States Army assigned to Office of Strategic Services
Donald Wheeler, Office of Strategic Services Research and Analysis division
Enos Wicher, Wave Propagation Research, Division of War Research, Columbia University
Maria Wicher
Harry Dexter White, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Ruth Beverly Wilson
Ignacy Witczak
Ilya Wolston, United States Army military intelligence
Flora Wovschin, Office of War Information; United States Department of State
Jones Orin York
Daniel Zaret, United States Army Explosives Division
Mark Zborowski
No, for the FULL part. Read the chapters on McCarthy in Ann Coulter’s book Treason.
It makes mincemeat out of this stupid commie history.com article.
I expected better history than this from the Platform.
Too bad the American people had not more leaders with the chutzpah of Tail Gunnner Joe when faced with the destructive force of cucks in league with commies allied against our once great Republic. McCArthy may very well be remembered by history as the Republic’s last great champion.
Have you noticed how much “decency” we’ve been getting lately?
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