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Mar 17, 2020 · The two men then had a drink to celebrate the creation of “Tail-Gunner Joe.” All told, McCarthy made about a dozen flights in the tail-gunner’s seat. He strafed deserted airfields, hit some fuel dumps, and came under enemy fire at least once.
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.
McCarthy was portrayed by Peter Boyle in the 1977 Emmy-winning television movie Tail Gunner Joe, a dramatization of McCarthy's life. [187] He was portrayed by Joe Don Baker in the 1992 HBO film Citizen Cohn. [188]
Jul 7, 2020 · The gentleman from Wisconsin engendered at least as much discourse in death as in life. Everyone who ran into Senator Joe McCarthy (R-Wisconsin) that spring of 1957 had a vivid memory of how ill he was—jaundiced skin, unsteady balance, intermittent focus.
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...
Jul 19, 2020 · 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 comrades in the Marines, that he volunteered for dangerous...
Oct 23, 2019 · He served as an intelligence officer in an aviation unit, and at times he volunteered to fly as an observer on combat aircraft. He later inflated that experience, claiming to have been a tail-gunner. He would even use the nickname "Tail-Gunner Joe" as part of his political campaigns.
