An interview with Joseph Mccarthy where he discusses the origins of what became called mccarthyism. Longines cone on scope. A Public Affairs program that 1951 untils from 1955. Its time for the longines cone scope. A Television Journal of the important issues of the hour, brought to every monday, wednesday, and friday. A presentation by the company longines company. Good evening, this is frank knight. May i introduce our coeditors longines coneon scope . Our guest for this evening is the honorable Joseph Mccarthy, United States senator from wisconsin. The opinions expressed are necessarily those of the speaker. Senator mccarthy, our viewers, of course, know you are one of the controversial political figures of our time. This is your first appearance since your overwhelming victory in the wisconsin primaries. Now, sir what brings you east at this time . Senator mccarthy your program. And i believe also this week you expect to make an address in connecticut, is that correct . Senator mcc
Company. Good evening, this is frank. May i introduce our coeditors. Mr. Victor, new yorkbased economist for the new york daily mirror. And are distinguished guest for this evening is mr. Arthur garfield hays. Famed constitutional lawyer and general counsel for the American Civil Liberties union. The opinions expressed are those of the speaker. You as adience knows longtime crusader for human freedom. They will be very interested in your views tonight. We had senator mccarthy on this show a few days ago. Our audience has his views. What is your general appraisal of senator mccarthy and his work . I think he is the most dangerous man in the United States. I think he is more dangerous to the freedom in the United States and all the communists we have in this country. Do you think that he is dangerous because he is attacking communism . I think he is dangerous because without sufficient evidence, he is smearing respected and highly decent people. Do you think there are communists in the s
Coming up next on booktv encore booknotes from january 2000. Arthur herman discusses his book Joseph Mccarthy. Professor herman reassesses cart these legacy and argues the senator from wisconsin was justified in arguing there was a real communist threat inside the u. S. Government. This is about an hour. Cspan arthur herman, author of Joseph Mccarthy, why do you think we needed to reexamine the life and legacy of americas mosthated senator . Guest well, there are a couple of reasons. One is that we now know a lot more about the times and the context in which mccarthy had his political career and built his career of notoriety. We also know a lot more about joe mccarthy, the man, and about his own life. And what i wanted to do was to really put it together in a book that would give people a broad introduction, both to the period, but also to joe mccarthy, the man; to understand who he was, why he has the kind of tremendous rereputation and notoriety that he does and to understand where t
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