Investigate. Its the 1950s and the era of mccarthy ism. Well explore the hearings. Republicans senator Joseph Mccarthy of wisconsin and instigated as he search for alleged communists in government. And well also look at the subsequent investigation of senator mccarthy himself over his attacks on the us army, which led to the senators downfall. Joining us is jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend. What was the mccarthy era . Well, the mccarthy era was a period in the early 1950s where the public had become really quite concerned about the possibility of communist infiltration into major american institutions, including the United States government and senator mccarthy, who was a first term senator from wisconsin, took advantage of that public concern. And his position on certain key committees in the senate to start raising allegations, making allegations against various institutions in the government, particularly in the military and in asp
You left . No answer. And this week on congress, investigate. Its the 1950s and the era of mccarthy ism. Well explore the hearings. Republicans senator Joseph Mccarthy of wisconsin and instigated as he search for alleged communists in government. And well also look at the subsequent investigation of senator mccarthy himself over his attacks on the us army, which led to the senators downfall. Joining us is jim townsend, director of the levin center for oversight and democracy. Mr. Townsend. What was the mccarthy era . Well, the mccarthy era was a period in the early 1950s where the public had become really quite concerned about the possibility of communist infiltration into major american institutions, including the United States government and senator mccarthy, who was a rst term senator from wisconsin, took advantage of that public concern. And his position on certain key committees in the senate to start raising allegations, making allegations against various institutions in the gove
Therefore we have consented to th e defendants release. The d. A. Does have six month to file an indictment in this case. But for now, four of the five teens are going to be out of jail. Im live here, brynn gingras, news4 new york. New information right now about the dozens of school kids who have gotten sick in queens. The mayor says it appears to be a norovirus. The outbreak is hitting ps 12 in woodside queens. John chandler is standing by at the school where the parents are obviously concerned. Reporter indeed theyre terrified. Thats because this was a mystery for much of the last 24 hours. It started wednesday morning when 60 kids left the school after vomiting. Today, another 28 were sent home. All the while, workers rushed to find a cause. Some classrooms half full at ps 12, but the Nurses Office was jam packed. Full of kids right snow. She started to feel sick. The nurse sent her home. Shes one of 80 kids with a nasty stomach virus. The nurse sent all of the school people, want
Well this teacher took that letter of recommendation and brought it to the school he applied to work at in West Virginia, got hired and over time became the principal. Well these kinds of pedophiles, they dont change their ways and he didnt change his ways in West Virginia. He continued to prey on kids. Eventually he raped and then murdered a 12yearold boy named jeremy bell. Well justice eventually caught up with the killer and hes now serving a life sentence for that murder. But for little jeremy bell, that justice came too late and sadly, jeremy bell is not alone. Last year, mr. President we had 459 School Employees across america arrested for Sexual Misconduct with the very children theyre supposed to be protecting and teaching and caring for. Thats more than one per day. And those are just the ones where there was enough evidence to actually prosecute to make an arrest and to pursue charges. How many others are getting away with this . And, frankly 2015 is not off to a much better
Direct conversation and have the direct and put around issues that we care about whether its Climate Change or infrastructure and know that we have within these agencies and leading these agencies folks who are genuinely looking for ways they can improve their partnerships to help us do our jobs locally so to each of you thank you so much and we really appreciate you being here. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] they were suggesting i give all of you my cell phone number and you can pass that along. Please follow up. It is now my great honor to introduce the 51st secretary of the u. S. Department of the interior. As secretary she leads an agency of more than 70,000 employees. The department of the interior serves as the steward of approximately 20 of the nations land including National Parks, National Wildlife refugees and other public lands. The Department Also oversees the responsible development of conventional and Renewable Energy supplies on public lan