10 Suspicious Facts about McCarthyism
“ Have you no sense of decency ? ” Joseph Welch , exceptional counsel for the U.S. Army , asked Senator Joseph McCarthy on live TV during the Army - McCarthy audience in 1954 . In his efforts to root out alleged communist sympathy in the military , McCarthy had finally bitten off more than he could chew . The hearing ushered in the end of his calling , and with it , his campaign now known as McCarthyism ....