Joseph McCarthy's Downfall Was Accusing the Army of Communism
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- Опубліковано 8 січ 2018
- In mid-1954, a riveted nation watched Senator Joseph McCarthy accuse the U.S. Army of being infiltrated by communists. But the army's lawyer, Joseph Welch refused to be bullied, and struck back.
From the Series: America in Color: The 1950s bit.ly/2lYGTuq
Sounds like history is repeating itself.
McCarthy and Ted Cruz look a lot alike.
Joe McCarthy wasn't the only one calling out people for being communist.
Today He'd just join Fox news
He deserved to lose his power
This was like the Salem Witch Trials, point your finger at anyone and call them a communist
Unbelievable how he looked 25 years older than his actual age.
Today the power of social media is destroying politicians.
Today we're just starting to realize that Joe was right ever since
70 years later and McCarthy was proven right. We all owe you an apology sir.
Too bad that James Gandolfini died. He would've been uncanny in a McCarthy biopic.
His downfall was having Eisenhower against him. Which probably was of course a result of probing our own Army, seeing as Ike was a 5-star General
I kinda wish there were captions for the dialogue in the court. I had a hard time understanding what was said between McCarthy and Welch due to the understandably bad audio of the time and my not so understandably bad hearing. Other than that, thanks for uploading the video.
48? He looked awful.
He enjoyed the power to destroy innocent people for no reason other than them having a different ideology than his own. His demise was swift, and justice was served in an ice-cold glass of Bourbon.
“But evidence accumulated from a variety of sources-including Soviet archives-since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s shows that McCarthy’s charges were, in numerous cases, neither false nor hysterical-but correct.”
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" is the line I'll always remember. I knew it was big news cause I sold papers on the street. But I was only 9 and I never knew what it really was all about until I got older. After he said that, McCarthy continued to ramble along in that monotone voice, not really making any sense about mundane things. It was pitiful to see him speaking with nobody listening to him.
Man I wish we had that accountability today
Actually there may have been some truth to what he was saying about Communists being tolerated in the military. Years ago I read a book about Oswald, and it said that when he was a young Marine stationed in Japan working as a radar tech, that he openly received Communist magazines in his mail and that the Marine Corps didn’t care. Some of his fellow Marines were shocked that he was so open about his support of Russian and Communism, receiving books and magazines, attending meetings of a Communist group in town (I don’t recall the name of the city where he was stationed), and basically thumbing his nose at the Corp, all without any inquiry or action being taken. This would have been in the late 50s.
It's symptomatic of YT viewership's general ignorance that no commenter is mentioning Roy Cohn, McCarthy's chief counsel, who was Trump's mentor during his formative years and taught him, among other things, to flout rules and the law as well as never to admit that he's wrong.