This is how I remember the story, as told many years ago by one of its participants. In 1954, Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy was making wild, unfounded accusations that communists had infiltrated the United States Army. By that time, McCarthy was notorious for falsely accusing patriotic Americans of being communists, and destroyed reputations and lives in the process. Hence the term “McCarthyism.”
A History Lesson For Our Turbulent Times
A History Lesson For Our Turbulent Times
A History Lesson For Our Turbulent Times
This is how I remember the story, as told many years ago by one of its participants. In 1954, Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy was making wild, unfounded accusations that communists had infiltrated the United States Army. By that time, McCarthy was notorious for falsely accusing patriotic Americans of being communists, and destroyed reputations and lives in the process. Hence the term “McCarthyism.”