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This 4 page paper uses contemporary sources to discuss Senator Joseph McCarthy’s efforts to find communists in the US government, an effort that finally ended in his disgrace. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. McCarthys Witch Hunt and Anticommunism Research Compiled for The Paper
Store, Inc. by K. Von Huben 9/2010 Please Introduction In the late 1940s and early 1950s, America was in the grip
of what can only be called a "Red Scare." People saw Communists behind every tree and were terrified that they were going to take over the U.S. This paranoia took
an extreme form: Senator Joseph McCarthy began to hold hearings, asking the now-famous question, "Are you now or have you ever been a member of the Communist Party?" What might
have been a reasonable exercise in caution soon turned into a witch hunt that only ended after McCarthy overreached himself and was disgraced. This paper analyzes three articles from the
time that describe the situation. Discussion The first article is letters to the editor of the Los Angeles Times, one praising McCarthy and the other condemning him, which goes to
show what a polarizing figure he was. Robert T. LeFevre defends McCarthy, in particular taking offense to an earlier article by columnist Holmes Alexander who had criticized McCarthy for unethical
conduct. LeFevre castigates Alexander for daring to criticize the man who is, in his words, "still fighting for America," despite his defects (LeFevre, 1950). On the same page, opposite LeFevre
in every sense, is a letter from one Hans Illing. Mr. Illing lambastes the Times for "being the only major newspaper in the country to whitewash the Senator from Wisconsin
and his satanic methods" (Illing, 1950). Illing takes exception to the idea that Congress should be given a free hand to pursue a quest for information and goes on to
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