Transcripts Reveal Ugly Details of McCarthy's Red Scare Browbeating. Ron Grossman.
by Grossman, Ron; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2004Article 10Global Issues. Publisher: Chicago Tribune, 2003ISSN: 1522-3221;.Subject(s): Anti-communist movements -- History | Communist Party (U.S.) | Copland | Hughes Langston | Legislative hearings | McCarthy Joseph | Segregation | Smith Act (1940) | Transparency in government | United States Congress Senate -- Committees | WitnessesDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Vladimir Toumanoff discovered the stark reality of McCarthyism in a stuffy room in the basement of the Senate Office Building. Half a century later, he can still feel his sense of outrage at being grilled by congressional investigators convinced he was a communist mole inside the U.S. government and unwilling to let facts get in the way of their conspiracy theories." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article discusses events during the Red Scare of the 1950s, "when ordinary Americans were victims of political witch-hunts that cost thousands their jobs. Its ugliness was revealed anew by the recent release of transcripts of closed-door sessions of a Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin--the grand inquisitor of the anticommunist crusade."| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: Transcripts Reveal Ugly Details of McCarthy's Red Scare Browbeating, May 18, 2003; pp. n.p..
"Vladimir Toumanoff discovered the stark reality of McCarthyism in a stuffy room in the basement of the Senate Office Building. Half a century later, he can still feel his sense of outrage at being grilled by congressional investigators convinced he was a communist mole inside the U.S. government and unwilling to let facts get in the way of their conspiracy theories." (CHICAGO TRIBUNE) This article discusses events during the Red Scare of the 1950s, "when ordinary Americans were victims of political witch-hunts that cost thousands their jobs. Its ugliness was revealed anew by the recent release of transcripts of closed-door sessions of a Senate subcommittee headed by Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin--the grand inquisitor of the anticommunist crusade."
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