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McCarthy then recited the list of supposedly pro-communist authors before his subcommittee and the press. Yielding to the pressure, the State Department ordered its overseas librarians to remove from their shelves "material by any controversial persons, Communists, fellow travelers, etc."
From its beginning, the Tydings Committee was marked by partisan infighting. Its final report, written by the Democratic majority, concluded that the individuals on McCarthy's list were neither Communists nor pro-communist, and said the State Department had an effective security program. Tydings labeled McCarthy's charges a "fraud and a hoax ...
In any event, McCarthy did not sue Greenspun for libel. (He was told that if the case went ahead he would be compelled to take the witness stand and to refute the charges made in the affidavit of the young man, which was the basis for Greenspun's story.) In 1953, he married Jean Fraser Kerr, a researcher in his office.
The committee's anti-communist investigations are often associated with McCarthyism, although Joseph McCarthy himself (as a U.S. Senator) had no direct involvement with the House committee. [2] [3] McCarthy was the chairman of the Government Operations Committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the U.S. Senate, not the House.
McCarthy claimed to have the names of more than 200 communists in the state department, and he held a series of televised smear campaigns in order to rid the government of communists. However, his attempts to find communists were largely unsuccessful; he ended up accusing the US army of containing communists, leading to his downfall and ...
Roy Marcus Cohn (/ k oʊ n / KOHN; February 20, 1927 – August 2, 1986) was an American lawyer and prosecutor known for his role as Senator Joseph McCarthy's chief counsel during the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954, when he assisted McCarthy's investigations of suspected communists.
McCarthy was upset over the fact House Speaker Nancy Pelosi disqualified two Republicans from serving on the committee because she did not believe they would look at the facts fairly. As a result ...
Army–McCarthy hearings Joseph McCarthy (left) chats with Roy Cohn at the hearings Event Senate hearing derived from Senator Joseph McCarthy's hunt for communists in the US Time April–June 1954 Place Washington, D.C. Participants The two sides of the hearing: US Army (accusing their opponents of blackmail) Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and G. David Schine (accusing the Army of communism ...