
Joseph McCarthy
Acting
🎂 1908-11-14
Joseph Raymond McCarthy (November 14, 1908 – May 2, 1957) was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death at age 48 in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. He alleged that numerous communists and Soviet spies and sympathizers had infiltrated the United States federal government, universities, film industry, and elsewhere. Ultimately he was censured by the Senate in 1954 for refusing to cooperate with and abusing members of the committee established to investigate whether or not he should be censured. The term "McCarthyism", coined in 1950 in reference to McCarthy's practices, was soon applied to similar anti-communist activities. Today the term is used more broadly to mean demagogic, reckless, and unsubstantiated accusations, as well as public attacks on the character or patriotism of political opponents.
Cast credits(24)

Self (archive footage)
2019

Self (archive footage)
2022

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
2005

Self (archive footage)
2014

Self (archive footage)
2018

Self (uncredited)
2018

Self (archive footage)
2019

2021

Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019

Self (archive footage)
2019

Self (archive footage)
1974

Himself (archive footage)
2019

Self (archive footage)
2015

Self (archive footage)
2008

Self (archive footage)
1981

Self (archive footage)
2020

Self (archive footage)
2012

Self (archive footage)
1973

Self (archive footage)
1969

Self - (archive footage)
2020

Self (uncredited)
2017
Self (archive footage)
1975

Self
1964

Archive Footage
1971