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    • Definition of McCarthyism, 1951

    • Definition of McCarthyism, 1951

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism;

    • Senator McCarthy is asked by journalist Bill Henry to define the term McCarthyism. The audience consists of journalists from across the country. The location of this panel discussion is unknown; however, it is believed to have taken place in late...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Lawrence K. Rosinger, 1952

    • Lawrence K. Rosinger, 1952

    • Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Barnett, Robert W., 1911-; Colgrove, Kenneth; Ferguson, Homer, 1889-1982; Field, Frederick Vanderbilt, 1905-; Hiss, Alger; Jessup, Philip C. (Philip Caryl), 1897-;...

    • Senator McCarthy presents evidence against Lawrence K. Rosinger, an expert on Far Eastern affairs and an alleged communist. After criticizing the Tydings Committee for mishandling Rosinger's case, McCarthy cites testimony from Rosinger's appearance...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Gustavo Duran, 1950

    • Gustavo Duran, 1950

    • Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Duran, Gustavo; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; McMahon, Brien, 1903-1952; Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972; Tydings, Millard E. (Millard Evelyn), 1890-1961;...

    • Senator McCarthy presents evidence against Gustavo Duran, a former State Department official with alleged ties to communism. Duran was an early target of McCarthy's anti-communism, and the senator often discussed Duran's case in public speeches...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Barn story, 1952

    • Barn story, 1952

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Hiss, Alger; Institute of Pacific Relations; Jessup, Philip C. (Philip Caryl), 1897-; Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989; McCarran, Pat, 1876-1954; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; McMahon,...

    • Senator McCarthy describes the discovery, in February 1951, of a cache of documents stored in a barn outside of Lee, Massachusetts. The documents originated with the Institute of Pacific Relations (IPR), an international organization dedicated to...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Role of FBI in investigating communists, 1953

    • Role of FBI in investigating communists, 1953

    • Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation; United States. Federal Security Agency; Wilkerson, Doxey Alphonso, 1905-;

    • Senator McCarthy answers the question of why he does not leave the investigation of communists to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Citing the testimony of J. Edgar Hoover in the case of Doxey Wilkerson, McCarthy points out that the FBI is...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Skunk hunting analogy, 1953

    • Skunk hunting analogy, 1953

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism;

    • Senator McCarthy likens the investigation of communists to his skunk hunting duties as a farm boy in Wisconsin. McCarthy included this story in many speeches to illustrate his belief that there was no clean or easy way to root out communists from...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Government Printing Office and Rothschild, 1954

    • Government Printing Office and Rothschild, 1954

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Blattenberger, Raymond, b. 1892; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Rothschild, Edward; United States. Government Printing Office;

    • Senator McCarthy warns of the threat posed by communists in the Government Printing Office. He discusses the case of Edward Rothschild, a GPO employee and alleged communist sympathizer, who had testified before McCarthy's committee in August 1953....
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Communists at Harvard University, 1954

    • Communists at Harvard University, 1954

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Furry, W. H. (Wendell Hinkle), 1907-; Harvard University -- Employees -- Political activity; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Pusey, Nathan M. (Nathan Marsh), 1907-2001;

    • Senator McCarthy denounces alleged communists at Harvard University, singling out Wendell Furry, a Harvard faculty member and civilian scientist who participated in research efforts at Fort Monmouth's Army Signal Corps Engineering Laboratories....
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Irving Peress, 1954

    • Irving Peress, 1954

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954; Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Peress, Irving;

    • Senator McCarthy discusses the case of Irving Peress, a former U.S. Army dentist with alleged ties to communism. McCarthy's subcommittee questioned Peress as part of its investigation of communists in the U.S. Army conducted in late 1953 and early...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Edward R. Murrow, 1954

    • Edward R. Murrow, 1954

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Duggan, Stephen, 1870-1950; Dulles, John Foster, 1888-1959; Institute of International Education (New York, N.Y.); McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Murrow, Edward R.; New York times;

    • Senator McCarthy responds to Edward R. Murrow's critical report about him, delivered on Murrow's See It Now television program on March 9, 1954. McCarthy describes Murrow's involvement during the 1930s with the Institute of International Education,...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Communists in defense industry, 1954

    • Communists in defense industry, 1954

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism;

    • Senator McCarthy discusses the difficulty he faces in removing "Fifth Amendment communists" from defense work, particularly in the development of atomic and hydrogen weapons. He claims that communists have access to all of America's nuclear...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Army-McCarthy hearings, 1954

    • Army-McCarthy hearings, 1954

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Schine, G. David (Gerard David), 1927-1996; Stevens, Robert Ten Broeck, 1899-1983;

    • Senator McCarthy comments on the Army-McCarthy hearings while addressing an audience of Republicans in Wausau, Wisconsin. The hearings had opened sixteen days before, on April 22, 1954, and would continue until June 17, 1954. In this excerpt...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Relationship with GOP and Eisenhower, 1954

    • Relationship with GOP and Eisenhower, 1954

    • Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969; Korean War, 1950-1953 -- Prisoners and prisons; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )

    • Senator McCarthy criticizes fellow Republicans for placing party above country by allowing U.S. foreign aid to be sent to allied nations who are trading with Communist China. McCarthy denies that he is attacking President Eisenhower. He claims that...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Names on Wheeling list, 1951

    • Names on Wheeling list, 1951

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Byrnes, James F. (James Francis), 1882-1972; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Sabath, Adolph Joachim, 1866-1952; Tydings, Millard E. (Millard Evelyn), 1890-1961;

    • Senator McCarthy attempts to clear up confusion over the number of names on the famous list he cited at his February 9, 1950 speech in Wheeling, West Virginia. He had been accused of changing the number of alleged communists in the State Department...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Defense of methods, 1952

    • Defense of methods, 1952

    • Alsop, Joseph, 1910-1989; Capital Times (Madison, Wis.); Childs, Mark; Pearson, Drew, 1897-1969; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Milwaukee journal; Time;

    • Senator McCarthy defends his anti-communist methods at a veterans’ gathering in Rhinelander, Wisconsin. After denouncing several of his critics in press and radio, McCarthy vows that he will use “lumberjack tactics” to remove communists from...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • John Stewart Service, 1950

    • John Stewart Service, 1950

    • Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971; Amerasia; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Grew, Joseph C. (Joseph Clark), 1880-1965; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Puerifoy, John; Service, John S. (John Stewart), 1909-1999; United...

    • Senator McCarthy criticizes the State Department for its handling of John Stewart Service, a State Department specialist on China. Service was one of the first targets of McCarthy's anti-communist campaign. He had been indicted for espionage in...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Denunciation of Capital Times newspaper, 1950

    • Denunciation of Capital Times newspaper, 1950

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Budenz, Louis F. (Louis Francis), 1891-1972; Capital Times (Madison, Wis.); Daily Worker (New York); Evjue, William Theodore, 1882-1970; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism; Parker, Cedric;

    • Senator McCarthy compares the Capital Times newspaper of Madison, Wisconsin with the New York Daily Worker newspaper published by Communist Party USA. McCarthy claims that the Capital Times voices the official Communist Party line, and he...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 1950

    • Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 1950

    • Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Berle, A. A. (Adolf Augustus), 1866-1960; Chambers, Whittaker; Gromyko, Andrei? Andreevich, 1909-1989; Harriman, W. Averell (William Averell), 1891-1986; Hiss, Alger;...

    • Senator McCarthy verbally attacks Secretary of State Dean Acheson, labeling him "the master planner for disaster." Acheson was arguably McCarthy's favorite target in the Truman administration, and this excerpt indicates how the senator portrayed...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Philip C. Jessup, 1951

    • Philip C. Jessup, 1951

    • Acheson, Dean, 1893-1971; Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Field, Frederick Vanderbilt, 1905-; Hickenlooper, Bourke B. (Bourke Blakemore), 1896-1971; Hiss, Alger; Jessup, Philip C. (Philip Caryl), 1897-; McCarthy, Joseph,...

    • Senator McCarthy presents evidence against Philip C. Jessup, a veteran foreign service officer and ambassador-at-large in the Truman administration. McCarthy accuses Jessup of having communist sympathies, and he claims that Jessup is associated...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954
    • Owen Lattimore, 1952

    • Owen Lattimore, 1952

    • Anti-communist movements -- United States -- History; Lattimore, Owen, 1900-1989; McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957; McCarthyism;

    • Senator McCarthy presents evidence against Owen J. Lattimore, professor at Johns Hopkins University and an expert on Far Eastern affairs. McCarthy began investigating Lattimore in 1950, claiming publicly that he was a top Soviet spy and an...
    • Senator Joe McCarthy - Audio Excerpts, 1950-1954

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