mcgorry's MyC-SPAN

Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, talked about how support on the issue of the Red Scare subsided over time and how it affected Sen. McCarthy.

• 2 minutes
• 6 views

Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, reflected on the impact of the McCarthy hearings.

• 2 minutes
• 6 views

Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, explained what occurred to Senator McCarthy after the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings.

• 2 minutes
• 2 views

Video featuring Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) when she talked about the significance of the release of some previously classified documents in 2003 related to the McCarthy hearings is featured along with the views of Senator Margaret Chase-Smith (R-ME) from 1950.

• 7 minutes
• 2 views

An archival video clip from the 1954 Army-McCarthy Hearings is featured. Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, talked about Joseph Welch's role as counsel for the U.S. Army during the hearings.

• 6 minutes
• 2 views

Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, discussed the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954.

• 8 minutes
• 2 views

Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, discussed hearings that were held and the significance of whether they were open or closed. Archival video of a CBS broadcast that featured Journalist Edward R. Murrow talking about Sen. Joseph McCarthy is shown.

• 3 minutes
• 3 views

Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, discussed members of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations at this time.

• 24 minutes
• 2 views

Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, talked about the lead up to the hearings, the role Senator McCarthy played and the reaction of the Truman administration.

• 34 minutes
• 4 views

Wheeling, WV Historian Margaret Brennan talked about Senator Joe McCarthy's remarks at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Wheeling, WV on February 9, 1950. Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy, talked about the media reaction to Sen. McCarthy's remarks.

• 7 minutes
• 23 views