The Manchurian Candidate
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The Manchurian Candidate, by Richard Condon, is a political thriller about the son of a prominent U.S. political family who is brainwashed into being an unwitting assassin for a Communist conspiracy.
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Joseph McCarthy
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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
The Manchurian Candidate
…brainwashed assassin Raymond Shaw, but to Senator Johnny Iselin, who is clearly a caricature of the anti-Communist demagogue of the early 1950s, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. The basic premise of the story is that Iselin's achievement of nomination to national office was the direct result of a Communist plot hatched in…
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.