Peter Boyle
Sen. Joseph McCarthy
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Mar 17, 2020 · How did a circuit judge become a war hero and a senator? Learn about the truth and lies behind McCarthy's military record and his political rise.
t. e. 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 ...
Tail Gunner Joe is a 1977 television movie dramatizing the life of U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican who claimed knowledge of communist infiltration of the U.S. government during the 1950s. The film was broadcast on NBC. It was nominated for six Emmy awards and won two: best writing and best supporting actor for Burgess ...
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Jul 7, 2020 · How the notorious senator and Red-baiter spent his final days in a downward spiral of alcoholism, illness and isolation. Read eyewitness accounts of his last conversations, hospitalization and funeral.
- Nancy Tappan
Jul 27, 2020 · McCarthy had been elected senator from Wisconsin in 1946, after switching his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican and running as a decorated Marine veteran with the nickname Tail Gunner Joe.
- Louis Menand
Jul 19, 2020 · The press had dismissed the idea of him as a legitimate war hero. They made fun of the moniker he gave himself, Tail Gunner Joe. It turns out, from the handwritten notes in the files and from his ...
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Learn about the life and career of Joseph McCarthy, a controversial U.S. senator who became America's leading anticommunist figure. He claimed to have flown as a tail gunner in World War II, but his service was questioned by some.
