Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called television’s “finest half-hour.” Legendary though it may be, it took more than a television show to take down McCarthy and short-circuit ...

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

Gerry Connolly accused President Donald Trump and Elon Musk of creating "McCarthy era 2.0" among government employees.

Sen. Joseph McCarthy The Post-Crescent, Appleton, Wisconsin. The end of World War II saw the United States defeating two enemies -- Germany and Japan -- and gaining a new one, the Soviet Union.

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak in behalf of Sen. George W. Malone, now seeking re-election. Instead of speaking for Malone the Wisconsin senator leveled his ...

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the ...