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The McCarthy Story It All Started in Wheeling Feb 9 1950
A Wheeling speech by Joseph McCarthy sparked national alarm as concerns over communism rose after World War II. The piece details McCarthy’s rhetoric, reactions of Francis Love and Tom Sweeney, and context including Hiss, Chambers, Fuchs, Coplon, Remington, and the era’s anti-communist actions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McCarthy
Wheeling
Senate Apatch
Frank Desmond
the Intelligencer
Sen
William Benton
Desmond
America
Arizona Hills
Channing
Francis J. Love
Tom Sweeney
Senate
Love
Congress
Far East
Communist Party
Whittaker Chambers
Louis Budenz
Elizabeth Bentley
Miss. Bentley
White House
Lauchlin Currie
Roosevelt
Currie
New York
Klaus Fuchs
Tudith Coplon
William Remington
Gerhart Elster
Alger Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Biss
Acheson
Chambers
House On- American Activities Committee
Russia
Supreme Court
Felix Frankfurter
Stanley Reed
Harvard Law
Washington
United Nations
San Francisco
Yalta
Maryland
Jin Hiss
England
Fuchs
Department of Commerce Economst
Miss Bentley
Remington
Judith Coplon
Justice Department
East Germany
Truman
Adlai Stevenson
Tinois