The Army-McCarthy hearings were televised live, and millions of Americans tuned in to the drama—which peaked when Army counsel Joseph Welch asked McCarthy if he had no sense of decency.

While several of the Army-McCarthy hearings were broadcast, the Watergate hearings were the first to become regularly televised. All 51 days of hearings were taped and aired, “ gavel-to-gavel .” ...

It was clear from the first day that the circus of the Army-McCarthy hearings would not be resumed by the Watkins committee. The ban on TV reduced the temptation to digression and disorder.

Point of Order. The Army-McCarthy hearings were superb political theater. In this fascinating film, a 97-minute précis of what television audiences saw at the time, the theater is heightened by ...

The “Army-McCarthy” hearings were nationally televised. Perhaps my interest was piqued by a story my father told. In the early 1930s, he had gone to a public meeting he later discovered had ...

In 1954, during the nationally televised Army-McCarthy hearings, held in the wake of the Senator’s almost comically preposterous charges of communist subversion in the U.S. military, ...

After McCarthy’s focus shifted to suspects and security threats in the Army, Welch was hired to represent the Army at Senate hearings on the allegations. The senator’s chief counsel was Roy Cohn.

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