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Post by pooka on May 12, 2020 0:39:21 GMT -5
So many innocent people suffered ruin thanks to Senator McCarthy's witch hunt. It shares some element of today. That is fake news. He would make wild unfounded accusations, & it was big news. Red devils were everywhere if you let him tell it. This last gasp that took it to far was he went after a junior lawyer working under Joseph Welch the army lawyer. He's the one in the video. The young lawyer was a member of "The Lawyers Guild" in collage & a bit after. A group that apparently had come to the defense of people accused of being communists. So there's the commie connection. McCarthy was going to ruin the young guy because he into an iffy group in college.
Here's a clip from TAIL GUNNER JOE (1977)
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Post by nana on May 13, 2020 14:31:17 GMT -5
I don't see a link to the clip!
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Post by pooka on May 14, 2020 11:34:56 GMT -5
Well here's a direct link. I looked at a film of the actual hearing. The script for the movie scene is verbatim or in exactly the same words as were used originally. Incidentally, Senator McCarthy was disgraced & censured. He drank himself to death within a couple of years afterwords. Tail Gunner Joe (1977) // Army - McCarthy Trial End Scene
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