Joseph McCarthy: Cold War Conspiracies and McCarthyism — Transcript

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1. 0:00today on the daily dose joseph mccarthy
2. 0:05during the early nervous days of the
3. 0:07cold war
4. 0:08republican senator joseph mccarthy
5. 0:11fueled the anti-communist red scare
6. 0:14movement
7. 0:15by alleging that numerous communist and
8. 0:17soviet sympathizers
9. 0:18had infiltrated the federal government
10. 0:21universities
11. 0:22and the arts at large after winning a
12. 0:25u.s senate seat from his home state of
13. 0:27wisconsin
14. 0:28mccarthy's first three years in the
15. 0:30senate were undistinguished
16. 0:32until he rose to national fame in 1950
17. 0:36when he asserted in his now infamous
18. 0:38enemies within speech
19. 0:40that he had a list of members of the
20. 0:42communist party
21. 0:43and members of a communist spy ring
22. 0:45employed by the state department
23. 0:47he would later broaden his finger
24. 0:49pointing to include the administration
25. 0:51of president harry s truman
26. 0:54the voice of america political opponents
27. 0:57suspected homosexuals and many a-list
28. 0:59names in literature in hollywood
29. 1:02including langston hughes and dorothy
30. 1:04parker
31. 1:05charlie chaplin orson welles
32. 1:09leonard bernstein pete seeger
33. 1:12burlives and lana horn
34. 1:15known as mccarthyism joseph mccarthy
35. 1:18used his seat
36. 1:19on the senate permanent subcommittee on
37. 1:21investigations
38. 1:23where some of mccarthy's most publicized
39. 1:25red scare accusations took place
40. 1:28his downfall would come in the autumn of
41. 1:311953
42. 1:32during the 36-day army mccarthy hearings
43. 1:36when mccarthy's committee began its
44. 1:37ill-fated inquiry
45. 1:39into the army signal core laboratory at
46. 1:42fort monmouth
47. 1:44broadcasted via the big three news
48. 1:46networks
49. 1:47public opinion began to see mccarthy as
50. 1:49bullying reckless and dishonest
51. 1:52while many republican lawmakers began to
52. 1:54see mccarthy as a liability to the party
53. 1:58on the 30th day of the army mccarthy
54. 2:00hearing
55. 2:01after mccarthy challenged the army's
56. 2:03chief legal counsel
57. 2:05joseph nye welch to investigate a boston
58. 2:08lawyer named fred fisher
59. 2:10welch had finally had enough of
60. 2:12mccarthy's ruthless badgering and
61. 2:14unfounded finger pointing
62. 2:16let us not assassinate this lad further
63. 2:19senator look you've done enough have you
64. 2:22no sense of decency sir at
65. 2:25long last have you left no
66. 2:29sense of death on december 2nd
67. 2:331954 the senate voted to censor
68. 2:36and later condemn mccarthy in a 67-22
69. 2:40landslide vote among the charges against
70. 2:44mccarthy
71. 2:45was that he had used his committee
72. 2:46authority as a lynching party
73. 2:49making the committee into an unwitting
74. 2:51handmaiden
75. 2:53and an involuntary agent and attorneys
76. 2:55in fact of the communist party
77. 2:58three years later joseph mccarthy would
78. 3:01die from alcoholism
79. 3:03at just 48 years of age
80. 3:07and there you have it joseph mccarthy
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