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Joseph McCarthy

Nov 14, 1908 - May 02, 1957 (48 years old) in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, USA

Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately he was censured by the Senate in 1954 for refusing to cooperate with and abusing members of the committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.

Known For

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Good Night, and Good Luck.
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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RBG
Self (archive footage)
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The Lincoln Project
Self (archive footage)
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And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
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Heir To An Execution
Self - Senator
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Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
Self (archive footage)
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Where's My Roy Cohn?
Self (archive footage)
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The Soul of America
Self (archive footage)
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Hearts and Minds
Self (archive footage)
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Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Self (archive footage)

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