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Sen. Joseph MCCarthy
[1908-1957]
![Joseph McCarthy [1908-57]](images/JoeMportrait.jpg "Joseph McCarthy [1908-57]") speech soundbite {1 min 26 sec.} | short profile |
"Joseph McCarthy proved [that] the more ridiculous the charge,
the less possibility there is of defense."
— John Steinbeck [1902-68] (in "America & Americans" 1968)
"The Venona project proves [that] McCarthy was right." ~~~ comment on YouTube, 1/2020
"Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator. You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir?
At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
— lawyer Joseph N. Welch [1890-1960], the U.S. Army's chief counsel
before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations's Army–McCarthy hearings, on 9 June 1954
U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy stirred up anti-Communist fears and rose to power
in collusion with the House Un-American Activities Committee during the 1950s,
but his hell-bent disregard for Constitutional rights led to censure by Congress, a failed career,
and a lonely death from alcoholism.
"McCarthyism is Americanism with its sleeves rolled."
L i n k s
Joseph McCarthy entry at Wikipedia
search books on keywords 'Joseph McCarthy' {returns 800+ titles} at Amazon
Joseph McCarthy listing at Internet Movie Database
Outagamie County Museum McCarthy exhibit
Appleton Wisconsin Library McCarthy exhibit
Webcorp sound & video archive
Army-McCarthy Hearings article at Museum of Broadcast Communications
Hollywood Blacklist Pages
at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store
Books About Joe McCarthy
search books on keywords 'Joseph McCarthy' {returns 800+ titles} at Amazon
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 | "100 Things You Should Know About Communism" [1948-49] by The House Committee on Un-American Activities collection of six pamphlets: "100 Things You Should Know About Communism ... In The U.S.A.", "... and Religion", "... and Education", "... and Labor", "... and Government", and "Spotlight On Spies" Wildside Press 10x7 pb [5/2010] for $11.95 |
 | "McCarthyism: The Fight For America - Documented Answers To Questions Asked By Friend and Foe" [1952] by Senator Joe McCarthy said to be 'almost all Jean Kerr's work' 100-page Ayer Co. Publng 11½x8¾ hardcover [6/77] out of print/used available as free online flip-book at Internet Archive |
 | "McCarthy, A Documented Record" cover story in the April 1954 The Progressive Magazine 100-page Literary Licensing, LLC 11x8½ magazine facsimile [4/2013] for $23.95 100-page Literary Licensing, LLC 11x8½ hardcover magazine facsimile [4/2013] for $38.95 |
 | "Senator Joe McCarthy" [1959 classic] by Richard H. Rovere, Introduction by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. book recommended by Gore Vidal [1925-2012] on TV talk show circa 1980 Univ CA Press 8x5½ pb [2/96] for $19.95 Borgo Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [12/91] out of print/used |
 | "The Committee: The Extraordinary Career of The House Committee On Un-American Activities" [1968] by Walter Goodman
FS&G hardcover [6/68] out of print/used |
 | "Thirty Years of Treason: Excerpts From Hearings Before The House Committee On Un-American Activities, 1938-1968" [orig 1971] Edited by Eric Bentley Thunder's Mouth Press 8¼x5½ pb [1/2002] for $24.95 Viking hardcover [11/71] out of print/used |
 | "The American Inquisition, 1945-1960: A Profile of The 'McCarthy Era'" [1973] by Cedric Belfrage Thunder's Mouth Press 9¼x6¼ pb [10/89] for $10.95 Bobbs-Merrill hardcover [1973] out of print/used |
 | "The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy: A Biography" [1982] by Thomas C. Reeves Stein & Day 9x6 pb [7/99] out of print/used Madison Books 9x6 pb [11/97] out of print/used Stein & Day hardcover [1/82] out of print/many used Blond & Briggs 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/82] out of print/used |
 | "The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and The Senate" [1970] by Robert Griffith Univ MA Press 8½x5½ pb [12/87] for $24.95 Hayden pb [6/71] out of print/used Univ MA Press hardcover [6/87] out of print/used |
 | "Joe McCarthy and The Press" [1981] by Edwin R. Bayley
Kindle Edition from Univ Wisconsin Press [1981 edition] for $14.95 Univ Wisconsin Press 9x6¾ pb [10/81] for $24.20 Univ Wisconsin Press 9¼x6 hardcover [8/81] out of print/used |
 | "A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy" [orig 1983, rev 2005] by David M. Oshinsky Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6 pb [9/2005] for $16.47 Free Press hardcover [5/83] out of print/used |
 | "Red Scare!: Right-Wing Hysteria, Fifties Fanaticism, and Their Legacy In Texas" [1985] by Don E. Carleton, Foreword by John Henry Faulk
Texas Monthly Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [5/85] out of print/used |
 | "La Grande Menace: Le Cinéma Américain Face au Maccarthysme" [1990] by Gilles Laprévotte, Michel Luciani, Anne-Marie Mangin "The Great Threat: American Cinema Facing McCarthyism" Festival International du Film d'Amiens French-language pb [1990] out of print/used |
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"Nightmare In Red: The McCarthy Era In Perspective" [1990] by Richard M. Fried Oxford Univ Press 8x5½ pb [3/91] for $14.95 Oxford Univ Press hardcover [1/90] out of print/used |
 | "The Age of McCarthyism: A Brief History With Documents" [1994] by Ellen Schrecker Bedford/St. Martin 8¼x5½ pb [11/2001] for $11.94 Palgrave Macmillan 8½x5¾ hardcover [1/2002] out of print/used |
 | "Red Scare: Memories of The American Inquisition - An Oral History" [1995] by Griffin Fariello covers 60+ individuals - victims and hunters - in 560 pages (averaging 9 pages each) Kindle Edition from W.W. Norton & Co. [12/2008] for $16.17 W.W. Norton & Co. 9¼x6 pb [1980] for $24.17 Avon Books 9x6 pb [5/96] out of print/used Replica Books 9¼x6 hardcover [12/97] out of print/used |
 | "McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare - A Documentary History" [1996] by Albert Fried Oxford Univ Press 9¼x6¼ pb [12/96] for $36.31 |
 | "The True History of A Great Patriot: The Late Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" [1998] by Mrs. Larry Lawrence Lent 36-page pack-of-lies brochure by Joe's secretary The Government Educational Foundation pb [1998] out of print/SOLD OUT ! |
 | "Many Are The Crimes: McCarthyism In America" [1998] by Ellen Schrecker
"It is no easy task bringing new life to an era already as dissected as the McCarthy era, yet this is what Schrecker accomplishes in a magnificent study of how and why McCarthyism happened and how its shadow still darkens our lives." — Kirkus Reviews Princeton Univ Press 9x6 pb [8/99] for $38.21 Little, Brown and Co. 9x6 hardcover [5/98] for $30.28 |
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"I Married a Communist" [1998 novel] by Philip Roth [1933-2018] Decades after the McCarthyism frenzy, Roth's alter ego character Nathan Zuckerman discovers the effects on own his life from the persecution of a high school teacher Vintage 8x5¼ pb [10/99] for $10.78 Houghton Mifflin 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/98] for $16.38 |
 | "Congressional Theatre: Dramatizing McCarthyism On Stage, Film & Television" [1999] by Brenda Murphy Cambridge Univ Press 9x6 pb [3/2002] for $37.99 Cambridge Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/99] for $85.00 |
 | "Pour en Finir Avec Le Maccarthysme: Lumičres sur La Liste Noire ŕ Hollywood (To Finish With McCarthyism: Lights On The Black List In Hollywood)" [1999] by Jean-Paul Török Editions L'Harmattan French-language 8½x5¼ pb [10/99] for $51.34 |
 | "Joseph McCarthy: Reexamining The Life & Legacy of America's Most Hated Senator" [1999] by Arthur Herman Free Press hardcover [12/99] out of print/used |
 | "Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism & American Culture" [2003] by Thomas Doherty Columbia Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [2/2005] for $23.00 Columbia Univ Press 9x6¼ hardcover [10/2003] for $71.00 |
 | "Reds: McCarthyism In Twentieth-Century America" [2003] by Ted Morgan Random House 8x5¼ pb [11/2004] for $11.53 Random House 9¼x6½ hardcover [11/2003] for $23.10 |
 | "A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy" [2005] by David M. Oshinsky Free Press 9x6 pb [8/2019] for $12.19 Free Press 9¼x6½ hardcover [5/83] out of print/used |
 | "The Age of Anxiety: McCarthyism To Terrorism" [2005] by Haynes Johnson Harvest Books pb [10/2006] for $10.29 Harcourt 9¼x6½ hardcover [10/2005] for $17.94 Highbridge ABR audio CD [10/2005] for $23.07 |
 | "Shooting Star: The Brief Arc of Joe McCarthy" [2006] by Tom Wicker Harcourt 7½x5 pb [3/2006] for $14.30 |
 | "Dark Days In The Newsroom: McCarthyism Aimed At The Press" [2007] by Edward Alwood Kindle Edition from Temple Univ Press [2007 edition] for $17.06 Temple Univ Press 8¼x5½ pb [6/2007] for $27.24 Temple Univ Press 8¼x5½ hardcover [6/2007] out of print/used |
 | "Blacklisted By History: The Real Story of Joseph McCarthy & His Fight Against America's Enemies" [2007] by M. Stanton Evans 'journalist' Evans has written a deceptive & dishonest defense of his hero McCarthy, leaving out any basic fact that shows McCarthy as the lying demagogue that he was Crown Forum 15x9 hardcover [11/2007] for $19.77 |
 | "Hollywood On Trial: McCarthyism's War Against The Movies" [2008] by Michael Freedland, with Barbra Paskin Anova Books 9½x6 hardcover [4/2008] for $14.29 "Witch Hunt In Hollywood: McCarthyism's War On Tinseltown" [2009] by Michael Freedland, with Barbra Paskin Kindle Edition from Aurum Press, Ltd. [7/2014] for $8.99 J.R. Books, Ltd. UK 9¼x6¼ pb [2009] for $25.00 |
 | "CBS's Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter In The Age of McCarthyism" [2008] by Loren Ghiglione Newscaster Don Hollenbeck [1905-54] hosted the pioneering, prize-winning radio program "CBS Views The Press" (1947-50), and was later attacked for his anti-establishment views; afraid of losing his job and with many personal problems, including ill health, he committed suicide at age 49 Don Hollenbeck entry at Wikipedia Kindle Edition from Columbia Univ Press [10/2008] for $18.99 Columbia Univ Press 8¾x5¾ pb [4/2011] for $34.00 Columbia Univ Press 9¼x6¼ hardcover [10/2008] for $56.01 |
 | "Red Chaser: A Noir Thriller of The 1950s, The Cold War, and The Brooklyn Dodgers" mystery novel [2008] by Jon Spoelstra Brooklyn 1951: Jake returns from five years hunting Nazis in postwar Germany and becomes a private detective; he tangles with a spy network run by a gorgeous redhead, blackmailers, and Joe McCarthy - which interferes with his main focus in life, the Dodgers and the race for the baseball World Series Kindle Edition from indep [12/2008] for $2.99 indep 9x6 pb [7/2020] for $12.95 |
 | "No Sense of Decency: The Army-McCarthy Hearings - A Demagogue Falls and Television Takes Charge of American Politics" [2009] by Robert Shogan
Ivan R. Dee, Publr 8¾x5½ hardcover [2/2009] for $18.15 |
 | "The Rise and Fall of Senator Joe McCarthy" [ages 12 & up; 2009] by James Cross Giblin Kindle Edition from Clarion Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [12/2009] for $16.99 Clarion Books 10x7½ hardcover [12/2009] for $27.44 |
 | "The Fear Within: Spies, Commies, and American Democracy On Trial" [2011] by Scott Martelle One of the early events in the Red Scare-McCarthyism era was the 1948 F.B.I. arrest and farcical 1949 trial of eleven leaders of the Communist Party in New York; the hysteria was so strong that the judge sentenced the defense lawyers to prison too. Kindle Edition from Rutgers Univ Press [5/2011] for $30.35 {sic} Rutgers Univ Press 9¼x6 hardcover [5/2011] for $19.00 |
 | "Le Maccarthysme: ou, La Peur Rouge: La Croisade Américaine Contre Le Communisme (Grands Événements #30)" [2015] by Christel Lamboley "McCarthyism or Red Fear: The American Crusade Against Communism (Great Events)" French-language Kindle Edition from 50minutes [7/2015] for $4.99 50minutes French-language 8x5 pb [7/2015] for $11.99 |
"A Lesson On How To Survive Trumpism – From The McCarthy Era" by Ellen Schrecker [2017]
read 9 January 2017 article free online at The Nation Magazine
"Trumpism Is The New McCarthyism" by Ellen Schrecker [2018]
read 21 May 2018 article free online at The Nation Magazine
 | "The Ghost Script: A Graphic Novel" [2018] by Jules Feiffer The concluding book of Jules Feiffer's hardboiled noir graphic novel trilogy - after "Kill My Mother" and prequel "Cousin Joseph" - evokes McCarthyism and the Hollywood Blacklist Kindle Edition from Liveright [7/2018] for $16.00 Liveright 11¼x8 hardcover [7/2018] for $16.84 |
 | "Saint Joseph of Wisconsin: The Heroic True Story of Senator Joseph McCarthy That Fake News & Fake Historians Don't Want You to Know" [2018] by M.S. King mindless drivel from conspiracy theorist ('global warming is a hoax') author - waste of money, waste of time Kindle Edition from Amazon Digital Services [8/2018] for $8.35 available as free online .PDF file at author's website |
 | "Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy" [2020]  by Larry Tye Kindle Edition from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt [7/2020] for $15.99 Mariner Books 8x5¼ pb [4/2021] PRE-ORDER for $19.99 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 9x6 hardcover [7/2020] for $27.34 |
Videos & DVDs About Joe McCarthy
"Good Night, And, Good Luck."
[Warner Independent Oct 2005]
 | TV newsman Edward R. Murrow airs a story about a man discharged from the Navy without a trial. Murrow is accused of being a 'Communist sympathizer', and the C.B.S. news team goes on the offensive. "See It Now" airs a series of shows detailing the lies and un-Constitutional tactics of Senator Joe McCarthy, leading to McCarthy's censure by the U.S. Senate • Co-written & directed by & co-starring George Clooney; starring David Strathairn as Edward R. Murrow, Patricia Clarkson, Jeff Daniels, Robert Downey Jr., Frank Langella, with Joseph McCarthy via archive footage; Oscar nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Script, Best Actor {DS, of course), Best Cinematograpy & Best Art Direction {no wins}
Warner widescreen b&w Blu-ray [8/2006] for $14.99 Warner widescreen b&w DVD [3/2006] for $11.51 full credits from IMDb • official moviesite • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [5/2014 upload; 2:30] online at YouTube |
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"Committee On Un-American Activities" documentary film [independent 1962]
 | 45-minute mostly b&w documentary covering the House Un-American Activities Committee from 1930s to 1962; Joe McCarthy is not included here because he was in the Senate • Produced, written, directed & edited by Robert Carl Cohen; featuring Sebastián Cardero, Wyatt Tee Walker, Urban Whitaker, Marshal Windmiller, Burton H. Wolfe; with archive footage of Earl Browder, Phillip Burton, Committee Chairman Martin Dies, Fritz Kuhn, August E. Johansen, William Mandel, Robert A. Meisenbach, Edward L. Peet, Franklin D. Roosevelt, James Roosevelt, Gordon Scherer, Bernard Selber, J. Parnell Thomas, Harry S. Truman, Francis E. Walter, Jack L. Warner, Frank Wilkinson; with archive voice recordings of Matthew C. Carberry, Lillian Hellman, Eric Johnston
DVD available at Radical Films • full credits at IMDb |
"Biography with Mike Wallace: Senator Joseph McCarthy" [Wolper Prodns 1962]
 | Produced & directed by Alan Landsburg; co-written by Jack Haley Jr. & Al Ramrus VHS tape includes episodes on McCarthy, Eisenhower, and De Gaulle DVD/Blu-ray not available • Easton Press Video VHS [undated] out of prodn/used credits at IMDb • watch b&w episode [7/2020 upload; 24:22] online at YouTube |
"Point of Order!" [Continental Distributing Jan 1964]
 |  | compiled from footage of the televised Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954 • Co-produced & directed by Emile de Antonio [1920-89]; with archive footage featuring lawyer Roy M. Cohn, U.S. Senator from Wisconsin Joseph McCarthy, U.S. Senator from Arkansas John L. McClellan, U.S. Senator from South Dakota Karl E. Mundt, Pvt. G. David Schine, U.S. Senator from Missouri Stuart Symington, counsel Joseph N. Welch; listed at National Film Registry in 1993
New Yorker Video b&w DVD [11/2005] for $75.00 New Yorker Video b&w VHS [2/99] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia |
"McCarthyism: Past, Present, Future" [aired 16 May 1966]
Season 1, Episode 10 of "Firing Line with William F. Buckley, Jr."
 | Buckley promotes the notion that Joe McCarthy's only error was 'oversimplification' while guest Leo Cherne points out that McCarthy spoke outright lies • Directed by Al De Caprio; with host William F. Buckley Jr., moderator John Scott, featuring Leo Cherne
WOR-TV color DVD [11/2008] for $10.00 full credits at IMDb |
 | "McCarthy: Death of A Witch Hunter" [1975] Directed by Emile de Antonio [1920-89]; hosted by Paul Newman, with archive footage featuring lawyer Roy M. Cohn, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower, Alger Hiss, Robert F. Kennedy, Prof. Owen Lattimore (Johns Hopkins University), Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Sen. John L. McClellan, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Ethel & Julius Rosenberg, Sen. Stuart Symington, Harry S. Truman • full credits at IMDb M.P.I. Home Video b&w VHS [5/2001] out of prodn/scarce |
"Tail Gunner Joe" TV biopic [NBC-TV Feb 1977]
 | "A [3-hour] dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactic of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies was initially designed to give him a national power base [as] he later planned to run for President." Produced by George Eckstein & Norman Chandler Fox; directed by Jud Taylor; written by Lane Slate; starring Peter Boyle {as Joe McCarthy}, George Wyner {as Roy Cohn}, Burgess Meredith {as Joseph Welch}, Patricia Neal {as Sen. Margaret Chase Smith}, Karen Carlson {as Jean Kerr}, John Carradine, Ned Beatty, John Forsythe, Heather Menzies-Urich, Jean Stapleton, Philip Abbott, Wesley Addy, Charles Cioffi, Diana Douglas, Andrew Duggan {as Dwight Eisenhower}, Henry Jones, Murray Matheson, Allan Miller, Tim O'Connor, Alan Oppenheimer, Addison Powell, Andrew Prine, John Randolph, Allan Rich, William Schallert, Simon Scott, Robert F. Simon, Lin McCarthy, Kelly Jean Peters, Robert Symonds {as Harry Truman}, Charles Siebert, Sam Chew Jr. {as Robert F. Kennedy}, John Chappell, Herb Voland, Edward Anhalt, Alan Hewitt, Howard Hesseman, Jack Bannon, Charles Macaulay, Richard M. Dixon {as Sen. Richard M. Nixon}, Wallace Rooney, Morgan Upton, Shirley O'Hara, George Petrie, Dallas Mitchell, James O'Connell, Devra Korwin, John Anderson, Gary Greene; nominated for six Emmy awards and won for Best Writing and for Best Supporting Actor {BM} VHS/DVD/Blu-ray not available • full credits at IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch full movie [11/2016 upload; 2:42:40] online at YouTube |
 | "McCarthy: The Answer To Tail Gunner Joe" [orig 1968, TV tie-in 1977] by Roy Cohn: The Man Who Knew Him Best Manor Books mass pb [1977] out of print/used Lancer Books 8½x5¾ pb [1968] out of print/used New American Library 8½x55¾ hardcover [1968] out of print/used |
 | "An American Ism: Joe McCarthy" [1978] Directed by Glenn Silber VHS available online at First Run / Icarus no listing found at IMDb (2020) |
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"Edward R. Murrow: The McCarthy Years" [1991] from C.B.S. News archives New Video Group b&w DVD [5/2005] for $21.99 Murrow's credits at IMDb Edward R. Murrow Page at Magic Lantern Video & Book Store |
"Citizen Cohn" TV movie [Viacom/H.B.O. Aug 1992]
 | A harsh look at the life of McCarthy henchman Cohn, in flashbacks as he lies dying of AIDS • Directed by Frank Pierson; telescript by David Franzoni, based on the book by Nicholas von Hoffman; starring James Woods {as attorney Roy M. Cohn}, Joe Don Baker {as Sen. McCarthy}, Ed Flanders, Joseph Bologna, Pat Hingle, Frederic Forrest, Lee Grant, David Marshall Grant & Fritz Weaver; nominated for Emmy Awards for Outstanding TV Movie, Outstanding Director (Miniseries), Outstanding Script (Miniseries), Outstanding Lead Actor [JW], Outstanding Supporting Actress [LG], seven others, won 3 minor Emmy Awards; won a Peabody Award
H.B.O. widescreen color DVD [9/2012] for $17.99 H.B.O. color DVD [7/2001] out of prodn/used H.B.O. color VHS [9/97] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb • movie entry at Wikipedia watch official trailer [10/2014 upload; 1:48] online at YouTube watch full movie [2/2019 upload; 1:51:37] online at YouTube | |
 | "Citizen Cohn: The Life & Times of Roy Cohn" [1988] by Nicholas von Hoffman Bantam mass pb [11/88] out of print/used Bantam mass pb [11/88] out of print/used Doubleday 9½x6½ hardcover [3/88] out of print/50+ used |
"The Crucible" [Fox Nov 1996]
  | A powerful parable of the Congressional witchhunts that were led by Sen. Joe McCarthy in 1950s America. Directed by Nicholas Hytner; script by Arthur Miller [1915-2005] from his 1953 play; starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen & Bruce Davison; Oscar nominations for Best Actress [JA] & Best Script; nominated for Best Script BAFTA, Scofield won BAFTA for Best Actor
Fox widescreen DVD [6/2004] for $11.98 Fox widescreen VHS [9/2001] for $9.48 Fox color VHS [4/2002] for $9.48 R.C.A. soundtrack CD [11/96] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb 11"x17" black poster {at left} no longer available at Amazon 11"x17" white poster {above} from Amazon for $14.15 playscript: Penguin 8x5 pb [3/2003] for $8.80
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"Cradle Will Rock" [Touchstone Dec 1999]
 | The Great Depression, labor politics, the McCarthy madness, and their effect on a group of actors & writers working to rehearse a leftist musical drama • Written & directed by Tim Robbins; starring Hank Azaria, Rubén Blades, Joan Cusack, John Cusack, Cary Elwes, Philip Baker Hall, Bill Murray, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro, Emily Watson & Bob Balaban
Buena Vista color DVD [4/2003] for $13.49 Touchstone color VHS [10/2002] for $9.99 RCA soundtrack CD [12/99] for $17.98 full credits from IMDb • credits of the play within the movie at Internet Broadway Database |
"The Real American: Joe McCarthy" [Eikon Media GmbH/Corinth Films 2012]
 | An unflinching look at the rise and fall of one of the most infamous political figures in U.S. history • Co-produced, co-written & directed by Lutz Hachmeister; co-written by Simone Höller & co-producer Annkatrin Schiller; starring John Sessions {as Joe McCarthy}, Justine Waddell, Trystan Gravelle {as Roy M. Cohn}, James Garnon {as Richard Nixon}, Philip Bulcock, Tim Ahern, Ryan McCluskey, Toby Longworth, Mark Plonsky, Morgan Deare, Shaun Lawton, Esther Zimmering, Liam Mockridge {as young Joe McCarthy}, Spencer O'Brien {as student Joe McCarthy}, Philip Rosch, Cosima Shaw, Daniel Fritz, Jesse Inman, Jeff Caster, journalist Carl Bernstein, editor Ben Bradlee, Peter Brooke (ABC News anchor), Ann Coulter, Mae Hughes, James Juliana, Henry Kissinger, Joseph Nye; with archive footage of: Joseph McCarthy, Constance Bennett, Roy M. Cohn, boxer Jack Dempsey, Dwight D. Eisenhower, beat poet Allen Ginsberg (voice), J. Edgar Hoover, Jean Kerr Minetti, Edward R. Murrow, Richard M. Nixon, G. David Schine •
full credits at IMDb
Film Movement color DVD [3/2018] for $29.95 watch official trailer [7/2018 upload; 1:56] online at YouTube |
"Where’s My Roy Cohn?" documentary film [Sony Pictures Classics Sept 2019]
 | film explores how Joseph McCarthy’s ex-aide Roy Cohn mentored Donald Trump & Roger Stone • Co-produced & directed by Matt Tyrnauer; featuring: Ken Auletta, Marie Brenner, Robert Cohen, historian Thomas Doherty, Joseph Epstein, Nikki Haskell, David Cay Johnston, Elizabeth Kabler, Martin London, David Marcus, Gary Marcus, Sam Roberts, Anne Roiphe, David Rosenthal, protégé Roger Stone, gossip columnist Liz Smith, Peter Sudler, John Vassallo, boyfriend Adam Wallace, Jim Zirin; with archive footage of: Roy M. Cohn, John G. Adams, John Anderson, father Al Cohn, mother Dora Cohn, Walter Cronkite, Thomas Eagleton, Geraldine A. Ferraro, Carmine Galante, John Gotti, J. Edgar Hoover, Ray Jenkins, Irving Kaufman, Larry King, Jack Mangan, Bernie Marcus, Charles Martensen, Joseph McCarthy, Robert Morgenthau, Karl E. Mundt, Rupert Murdoch, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Julius & Ethel Rosenberg, Steve Rubell, Morley Safer, Tony Salerno, Pvt. G. David Schine, Tom Snyder, Harry S. Truman (voice), protégé Donald Trump, Fred Trump, Mike Wallace, Barbara Walters, Joseph N. Welch
Sony Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color Blu-ray [12/2019] for $26.62 Sony Pictures Home Ent. widescreen color DVD w/multi-language subtitles [12/2019] for $17.79 full credits at IMDb • official movie site watch 1/2019 interview of director Matt Tyrnauer [34:48] online at YouTube watch 7/2019 official trailer [2:02] online at YouTube |
"McCarthy: Power Feeds On Fear" [P.B.S. Jan 2020]
 | two-hour Season 32, Episode 1 of the "American Experience" TV series [since 1988] Directed by Sharon Grimberg; featuring David Oshinsky, historian Thomas Doherty, historian Jelani Cobb, and featuring archive footage of Joseph McCarthy, Joseph N. Welch, attorney Roy M. Cohn P.B.S. Direct Video widescreen color DVD [2/2020] for $17.79 bare credits at IMDb • official P.B.S. movie homepage watch 11/2019 official promo [1:48] online at YouTube watch 'Decency' excerpt [5/2020 upload; 5:46] online at YouTube |
Videos of Joe McCarthy on Television
"Longines Chronoscope" TV interview series [CBS-TV 1951-55]
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15-minute episode aired 25 June 1952; hosts Donald I. Rogers & William Bradford Huie interview Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI); topics include his recent speaking tour, his speeches against the Truman administration, his recent primary election victory, and the origin of the term 'McCarthyism'
DVD contains four interview shows: 60-minute U.S. National Archives b&w DVD [3/2009] for $18.95 bare credits at IMDb • watch full episode [1/2011 upload; 14:36] online at YouTube 15-minute episode aired 28 Sept 1952; hosts Henry Hazlitt & William Bradford Huie interview Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI); topics include his recent speaking tour supporting the Eisenhower/Nixon ticket, his recent primary election victory, and the origin of the term 'McCarthyism' DVD contains four interview shows: 60-minute U.S. National Archives b&w DVD [3/2009] for $18.95 bare credits at IMDb • watch full episode [12/2010 upload; 14:39] online at YouTube |
"See It Now: A Report On Senator Joseph R. McCarthy" [CBS-TV aired 9 March 1954]
hosted by Edward R. Murrow [1908-65]
watch kinescope of full program [11/2014 upload; 25:50] online at YouTube
"See It Now: Joseph McCarthy Denounces Edward R. Murrow" [CBS-TV aired 6 April 1954]
hosted by Edward R. Murrow [1908-65]
watch kinescope of full program [10/2015 upload; 26:35] online at YouTube
"See It Now: Edward R. Murrow Denounces Joseph McCarthy" [CBS-TV aired 13 April 1954]
Murrow ended the next week's program with a rebuttal to McCarthy's false accusations
watch kinescope of final segment [8/2018 upload; 6:31] online at YouTube
"Face The Nation" [CBS-TV aired 7 Nov 1954]
Debut of the C.B.S. News program with host Ted Koop; the first guest was Sen. Joseph McCarthy
watch kinescope of opening segment [3/2012 upload; 4:18] online at YouTube
The rock band R.E.M. sampled some of the audio from the Army-McCarthy hearings for their song "Exhuming McCarthy", on their 1987 album "Document".
Image Gallery
Family & Friends & Colleagues
Joseph Raymond McCarthy was born in November 1908 in Grand Chute, Wisconsin; elected to U.S. Senate in 1946; he was chairman of the
Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, 1953-1954, the Senate voted to censure him by a vote of 67-22 on 2 December 1954;
he died of alcohol-related hepatitis at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland on 2 May 1957 at age 48.
wife Jean Kerr McCarthy Minetti [d. 1979] - married 1953, widowed 1957
adopted daughter Tierney Josephine McCarthy Grinivac [b. 1957]
lawyer Roy M. Cohn [1927-86]
chief counsel & 'chief hatchet man' on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn
Spirit of America Bookstore's evil bastid Roy M. Cohn [1927-86] Page
Robert F. Kennedy [1925-68]
RFK was an assistant counsel on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_F._Kennedy
lawyer Joseph N. Welch [1890-1960]
the U.S. Army's chief counsel for the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_N._Welch
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