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Joseph N. Welch
Primghar, Iowa, USA
Joseph Nye Welch (October 22, 1890 – October 6, 1960) was an American lawyer who served as the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Commun…
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Joseph Nye Welch (October 22, 1890 – October 6, 1960) was an American lawyer who served as the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, an investigation known as the Army–McCarthy hearings. His confrontation with McCarthy during the hearings, in which he asked McCarthy "Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?", is seen as a turning point in the history of McCarthyism.
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2024
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
TV show Self - Special Counsel for the Army (archive footage)
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2012
Ethel
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2005
Good Night, and Good Luck.
Movie Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
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1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker
Movie Judge Weaver (archive footage)
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1964
Point of Order!
Movie Self
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1960
The Dow Hour of Great Mysteries
TV show Self – Host
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1959
Startime
TV show Self – Host
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1959
Anatomy of a Murder
Movie Judge Weaver
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1958
Small World
TV show Self
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1948
The Ed Sullivan Show
TV show Self
