Senator Joseph McCarthy

[Larry deZeng]

Originally Posted by John Beaman

I am old enough to have watched, live, Edward R. Murrow's famous expose of McCarthy when I was a teenager.

Unclear - you watched the McCarthy hearings in the early 'fifties as I did, or you watched Murrow's expose some years later or both? I was in high school at the time of the hearings and remember watching them of TV in the afternoons after school.

Although this is OT, it may surprise most of our European friends that the majority of Americans were so afraid of a communist infiltration and takeover of the country that they supported what Joe McCarthy was doing at the time. It was only years later that people began to grudgingly admit that his methods were somewhat over the top. But, like cancer surgery, it had to be done for the sake of the country.

Larry (U.S. Larry as opposed to U.K. Larry)