1908-11-14 ( 116 years old ) in Grand Chute, Wisconsin, USA
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 widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately he was censured by the Senate in 1954 for refusing to cooperate with and abusing members of the committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.
Movies
The Soul of America
2020-10-22
McCarthy
2020-01-06
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
2019-09-29
Where's My Roy Cohn?
2019-09-20
Coup 53
2019-09-01
The Lavender Scare
2019-06-07
RBG
2018-05-04
RBG
2018-05-04
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
2017-11-09
Imminent Threat
2015-09-04
And the Oscar Goes To...
2014-02-01
Ethel
2012-01-20
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
2008-03-24
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2005-09-16
The Day After Trinity
1981-01-20
McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter
1975-01-01
Hearts and Minds
1974-12-20
The Two Kennedys
1969-11-18
Point of Order!
1964-01-14
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