_The Tydings committee was formed to examine McCarthy’s claims that there were 205 known communists in the State Department, and it held hearings to that end from February to July 1950. The final report of the committee dismissed McCarthy’s claims as a “fraud.”
Just three days after the report was issued Julius Rosenberg was arrested on charges of having supplied the Soviets with information on the atomic bomb. With Soviet espionage in the headlines once again, McCarthy’s accusations were once again brought into consideration.
Just three days after the report was issued Julius Rosenberg was arrested on charges of having supplied the Soviets with information on the atomic bomb. With Soviet espionage in the headlines once again, McCarthy’s accusations were once again brought into consideration.
_When McCarthy turned his focus on to accusing the U.S. Army of having communist ties, Army officials launched their own investigation of McCarthy. The resulting Senate hearings, called the Army-McCarthy hearings, were conducted in 1954, turning American public strongly against McCarthy.
Army officials accused McCarthy and his top aide, attorney Roy Cohn, of abusing their power, they claimed that McCarthy and Cohn had sought preferential treatment for another aide, G. David Schine, after Schine was drafted into the Army. As McCarthy was being investigated by his own Senate committee, he temporarily removed himself as its chair.
Welch, the attorney for the Army officials, exposed McCarthy’s use of fake evidence to support his case, including a doctored photograph and a forged letter supposedly from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. McCarthy attempted to besmirch Welch by accusing his staff of communist ties. Welch famously replied, “Have you no sense of decency?”
As a result of these widely publicised events, McCarthy fell into disfavour with the American public and was censured by his colleagues in the Senate. McCarthy was finally voted out of office in 1955, dying in disgrace two years later.
Army officials accused McCarthy and his top aide, attorney Roy Cohn, of abusing their power, they claimed that McCarthy and Cohn had sought preferential treatment for another aide, G. David Schine, after Schine was drafted into the Army. As McCarthy was being investigated by his own Senate committee, he temporarily removed himself as its chair.
Welch, the attorney for the Army officials, exposed McCarthy’s use of fake evidence to support his case, including a doctored photograph and a forged letter supposedly from FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. McCarthy attempted to besmirch Welch by accusing his staff of communist ties. Welch famously replied, “Have you no sense of decency?”
As a result of these widely publicised events, McCarthy fell into disfavour with the American public and was censured by his colleagues in the Senate. McCarthy was finally voted out of office in 1955, dying in disgrace two years later.