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The most well-known example of a profession affected by McCarthyism was the film and entertainment industry. Throughout the Cold War, a blacklist of names of suspected Communists in Hollywood was kept. It should be noted that this was done not by Senator McCarthy, but by the House Committee on Un-American Activities, a group that few people today seem to remember. The Hollywood Ten (the height of the blacklist period) was during McCarthy's reign.

McCarthy also went after the army. The quote "have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" was from the Army-McCarthy hearings. In the end, however, McCarthy came out the worse in the encounter.

McCarthy also attacked artists, musicians, and university professors.

Yes, Joseph McCarthy married to Jean Kerr in 1953

McCarthy was able to capitalize on US fears about communism and claiming they were in the government.

The McCarthy Witch trials are actually considered McCarthyism. This is the practice of accusing individuals of disloyalty, treason and subversion without any factual evidence. This originates from a period in the U.S known as the Second Red Scare, from the 1940's and 1950's.

Anyone who seemed abnormal to society or refused to conform to the materialistic, superficial living which prevailed at that time.

A Senate censure of McCarthy

That there were communists working inside high levels of Government (including the State Department, the United States Air Force, and United States Army), and there were individuals working for the Communist Party or sympathetic to the Communist Party in all levels of government (The White House, Congress, and the Press). His accusations led the Second Red Scare to occur in the United States from his Wheeling West Virginia speech in 1951, to the Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954 and subsequent censure by the United States Senate.

McCarthy was so powerful because so many different agencies and individuals took part in McCarthyism-related operations. The public was so frightened by the supposed (and real) threat of communists undermining US security that they supported anyone who seemed to be fighting it.

McCarthy accused anyone who he disagreed with of being a communist. He particularly went after people who were populists or activists or had leftist leanings of any kind. He accused many of his political opponents and writers and actors in Hollywood. People who were accused were then brought before a senate committee and asked to name names. It became a witch hunt and many people were blackballed from their professions and unable to work.

Anyone and his sister who associated themselves with another accused communist. And then anyone who was close to that person, most people turned in others for their positions or for vengeful purposes.

McCarthy Vindicated At Last 12/18/2007 http://bit.ly/b2fmz8

"...These intercepted cables proved that there were over 350 Americans spying for the Soviets, and enabled investigators to identify about half of them. Joe McCarthy had access to the information contained in the top secret Venona intercepts, access given him by J. Edgar Hoover and others concerned with the extent of Soviet espionage and penetration, but he could not defend himself against charges of recklessly accusing people of being Soviet agents by revealing the source of his information without alerting the Soviets that some of their most important secrets were known to U.S. Intelligence..."

He had gained popularity by accusing certain people of being Soviet (Russian) spies, through the fear that had already entered the minds of many Americans they found him to be someone they could trust to protect them from the threat. Through trials and rigorous investigations it was revealed that his "List of spies" was in fact not as trustworthy as he had claimed. The trust of the people was lost and so ended his career and good name.

Senator Joseph McCarthy searched for communist card holders in the US government and in Hollywood. To him, these people were a danger to US security. That is why he searched for them. His misguided intent was to protect the US. Instead he went "overboard".

Something so evil and corrupt, I can't bear to see it written. In fact, you should protect yourself and avoid looking too.

Google, the search of which is faster than actually typing up the above question, will tell you almost instantly.

HINT: Communism, what else?

**Communism For Apex.**

He targeted and attacked various people. - nova net

The people he "blackballed" would be on a list and could would not be hired for jobs.

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1954, the senate voted to censure, or formally criticize, him for "conduct unbecoming a senator"

Joseph McCarthy was a US senator in the 1950's who lead a paranoid campaign against communist subversion, which involved many false accusations and unjust persecutions, and which is generally described therefore as a witch hunt; it was a disgraceful episode of American history. As is often the case with paranoiacs driven by hatred, McCarthy ultimately destroyed himself. He was censured by the rest of the Senate, and died in a hospital for alcoholics less than two years after leaving office.

Lack of evidence that the Army had been infiltrated by Communists was one factor, as were his tactics, which produced revulsion in his colleagues, as well as the public at large.

His fall from influence was precipitated by his censure by the Senate, which was passed in December 1954. Originally charged with 46 counts of violating senate rules and procedures, he was ultimately cited on the count of "contempt of the Subcommittee on Rules and Administration," which had called him to testify in 1951 and 1952. Influential senators had been opposing him from as early as 1950, however.

Interestingly, John F. Kennedy was the only Democrat not to vote in favor of the measure. He was in the hospital at the time. But his younger brother Robert had been a prominent staff attorney working for McCarthy's committee. The elder Kennedy never indicated which way he would have voted if he had been able to attend.

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