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The hearings were broadcast nationally on the new ABC and DuMont networks, and in part by NBC. [11] Francis Newton Littlejohn, the news director at ABC, made the decision to cover the hearings live, gavel-to-gavel. [12] The televised hearings lasted for 36 days and an estimated 80 million people saw at least part of the hearings. [13]
The Army–McCarthy hearings came about when the Army accused Senator Joseph McCarthy of improperly pressuring the Army for special privileges for Private G. David Schine, formerly of McCarthy's investigative staff. McCarthy counter-charged that the Army was holding Schine hostage to keep him from searching for Communists in the Army.
ABC then became the only major network to broadcast the 1954 Army–McCarthy hearings on television, growing their prominence [42] and "sinking McCarthy" due to the public exposure to his excesses. [43] Agronsky also did a one-on-one discussion show at ABC, At Issue, which aired on Sunday evenings in 1953. [44]
Live gavel-to-gavel television broadcasts of the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings, evidence-free "rants" and all, gave Americans a visceral view of an increasingly deranged populist steamrolling ...
Paulette Goddard (born Marion Levy; June 3, 1910 – April 23, 1990) was an American actress and socialite. Her career spanned six decades, from the 1920s to the early 1970s. Her career spanned six decades, from the 1920s to the early 1970s.
Those visuals became synonymous with the truth of that awful time for me — and I dare say for millions of other Americans. They say in TV news that, “If it’s not on film, it didn’t happen.”
On January 6, Kevin McCarthy was scared, Liz Cheney told millions of Americans watching the January 6 committee hearings. Mr McCarthy, who had joined 146 other Republicans in the House and Senate ...
At the hearings, McCarthy expanded on his original list of unnamed individuals and made charges against nine others whose names he made public: Dorothy Kenyon, Esther Brunauer, Haldore Hanson, Gustavo Duran, Owen Lattimore, Harlow Shapley, Frederick L. Schuman, John S. Service and Philip Jessup. Owen Lattimore became a particular focus of ...