American politician and interrogator Joseph McCarthy became famous for his 1950s investigations into supposed communist subversion .
McCarthy make headway a seat in the United States Senate in 1946 , after the end of World War II . This era was the beginning of the Cold War and a new " Red Scare " .
care about communism were running high after World War II . This char poses with a box seat of anti - Communist chewing gum tree labelled " Red Menace " in 1951 . The anti - Communism witch hunt prompt by Joseph McCarthy fed off these awe .
McCarthy was known for tough , restrain interview tactic – like those on exhibit in this photo at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing .
At one time , McCarthy was quite popular among the world , as this rally of McCarthy supporters demonstrates .
Here , Senator McCarthy listen to Louis Budnez at a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearing . Budnez , a former Communist Party extremity , was a fundamental witness against alleged communistic leaders .
Owen Lattimore , express here with Senator McCarthy , was an American bookman versify in Asian acculturation . Ex - Communist Louis Budnez called Lattimore a appendage of a Communist spy cadre in testimony before the House Un - American Activities Committee in Washington on April 20 , 1950 .
McCarthy ’s communistic Leigh Hunt was n’t limited to the United States . He went so far as to accuse British Prime Minister Clement Attlee of left-wing sympathies . McCarthy released a photo of the statesman fix a communistic salute during the Spanish Civil War . The incident was a grim gunpoint in American - British relations , but it resurrect the perception of McCarthy ’s might and influence .
American diarist Edward R. Murrow deliver an investigative study vital of Senator McCarthy on the news show " See It Now , " broadcast on March 9 , 1954 . The conflict between Murrow and McCarthy was the centre of the 2005 film " Good Night , and Good Luck . "
subsequently , on April 6 , 1954 , Senator McCarthy had an opportunity to contend his side as a node on Edward R. Murrow ’s ' See It Now ' tidings program , but he was already on the route to political exile .
Here Joseph McCarthy wave a text file on the premier program of the TV show ' Face the Nation , ' on Nov. 7 , 1954 . Murrow ’s reporting , along with a live broadcast of the Army - McCarthy hearing earlier in the summertime of 1954 , helped plow public public opinion against the senator .
At the center of the complicated Army - McCarthy hearings were David Schine , Roy Cohn , Senator McCarthy and Frank Carr .
The U.S. Senate subcommittee met to examine thrill and counter - mission during the Army - McCarthy investigation . Daily report on the audience helped rock popular public opinion against McCarthy .
On December 2 , 1954 , the Senate voted to censure McCarthy for breaching senatorial ethics and sully the dignity of the origination .
McCarthy bear on to serve in the Senate until his end in 1957 , though his influence was greatly diminish .
McCarthy ’s legacy , as with many influential politico , is still being debated . show more about the hysteria of the Red Scare and the life of Joseph McCarthy inHow McCarthyism Worked .
