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Senator Joseph R. McCarthy
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1908: On November, 14 McCarthy was born in Grand Chute, Wisconsin
1946: He was elected to the US Senate and in 1952 he was reelected
"McCarthy's jump from obscurity to the national limelight began
early two years ago, when he made a speech in Wheeling, W. Va. He said:
"I have here in my hand a list of 205, a list of names made known to the
Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless
are still working and shaping policy in the State Department," Next day
in Salt Lake City, he declared: "I hold in my hand the names of 57 card-carrying
Communists" working in the State Department. Ten days later, on the Senate
floor, he cited 81 "cases," particularly "three big Communists." Said McCarthy:
"While there are vast numbers of other Communists with whom we must be
concerned, if we can get rid of these three, we will have done something
to break the back of the espionage ring within the State Department."
Times, (March 1, 1954)
On May 2, 1957 Joe McCarthy died in Bethesda, Maryland
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