May 9, 2003
Half a Century Later, Reading Between the Lines of the McCarthy Transcripts
U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy vetted his witnesses carefully. Before calling them to testify before his Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, he held 160 closed hearings to interrogate more than 300 people about their alleged Communist connections. Roughly a third of those never testified in public.
Fifty years after McCarthy's witch hunt, the subcommittee has released the transcripts, which Donald A. Ritchie, associate historian in the Senate Historical Office, says will give
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