Joseph McCarthy

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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.

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2024
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
TV show Self - U.S. Senator, Wisconsin (archive footage)
2022
The Lincoln Project
TV show Self (archive footage)
2021
The Real Charlie Chaplin
Movie Self (archive footage)
2020
The Soul of America
Movie Self (archive footage)
2020
McCarthy
Movie Self - (archive footage)
2019
Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn
Movie Self (archive footage)
2019
Where's My Roy Cohn?
Movie Self (archive footage)
2019
Coup 53
Movie Self - Politician (archive footage)
2019
Greatest Events of World War II in Colour
TV show Self (archive footage)
2019
The Lavender Scare
Movie Self (archive footage)
2018
RBG
Movie Self (archive footage)
2017
Stewart & Mitchum: The Two Faces of America
Movie Self (uncredited)
2015
Imminent Threat
Movie Self (archive footage)
2012
Ethel
Movie Self (archive footage)
2008
The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Movie Self (archive footage)
2005
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)