During a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin) claims that he has a list with the names of over 200 members of the Department of State that are “known communists.”
Who was Joseph mccarthy ?
- Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was a Republican United States Senator representing Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957.
- McCarthy became the most apparent public face of an era in the United States when Cold War tensions fostered worries of extensive communist influence beginning in 1950.
- He is well-known for claiming that countless communists and Soviet spies and supporters have penetrated the federal government, colleges, film industry, and other institutions in the United States.
- He was eventually censured for refusing to comply with, and abusing, the committee formed to explore whether he should be censured.
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