Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican senator from Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face
McCarthy in 1954
McCarthy receiving his DFC and Air Medal from Colonel John R. Lanigan, commanding officer of Fifth Marine Reserve District, December 1952
Herbert Block, who signed his work "Herblock", coined the term "McCarthyism" in this cartoon in the March 29, 1950, Washington Post.
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States.
Roy Marcus Cohn was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and conservative political activist. He first gained fame as a prosecutor of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg in their trials and as Senator Joseph McCart
Joseph McCarthy
…1953, he married Jean Fraser Kerr, a researcher in his office. She was his first and only wife. In January 1957, they adopted an infant with the help of Roy Cohn's close friend Cardinal Francis Spellman. The baby girl was named Tierney Elizabeth McCarthy. Senator McCarthy's first three years in the Senate were…
Ethel and Julius Rosenberg after their jury conviction in 1951
Roy Cohn, Joseph McCarthy, and G. David Schine in 1953
Senator Joseph McCarthy chats with Cohn at the Army–McCarthy hearings in 1954