Joseph McCarthy's Downfall Was Accusing the Army of Communism
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ม.ค. 2018
- In mid-1954, a riveted nation watched Senator Joseph McCarthy accuse the U.S. Army of being infiltrated by communists. But the army's lawyer, Joseph Welch refused to be bullied, and struck back.
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Today the power of social media is destroying politicians.
Power of information
I know my research on the second Red Scare is heading in the right direction when I see Mr. Beat in the comments
You can say that again 😂🎉
Remember when everyone thought that Donald Trump was working for the Russians and that all social media was talking about it? Well, that aged badly.😂🎉
Too bad that James Gandolfini died. He would've been uncanny in a McCarthy biopic.
Perfect
Absolutely spot on.
"Aye Tone, you hear about that funny business happening down in DC at that Congressional hearing last week?"
Unbelievable how he looked 25 years older than his actual age.
It's that Midwestern diet lol
He doesn’t really look 65
Well, when you're an alcoholic and a drug addict, it ages you rather quickly.
That's what communists do to people
Totally, I was thinking the same. I’d guess the bottle played a role there too.
Joe McCarthy wasn't the only one calling out people for being communist.
JFK.
And veterans organizations.
525Lines he kicked it off though to try and prolong his political career
I don't know about that. It started in the 30s, at least. After World War One, America occupied Russia and we've been paranoid about communism ever since.
FDR definitely wanted in the European war because he had to be there with the peacetime carveup. That's a fact. I hate to think that he knew Pearl Harbor was coming and did nothing because nothing else would get the US on board with going into the war, but all signs point to it.
His downfall was having Eisenhower against him. Which probably was of course a result of probing our own Army, seeing as Ike was a 5-star General
Yes, and what people didn't know about Eisenhower at the time was that although he was a Republican, he was a member of Leftist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), which was founded by a Marxist in 1921 for the purpose of slowly establishing world government and dissolving America's borders and Constitution. Eisenhower was also instrumental in removing all the anti-communist laws at the time that barred Marxists from working in schools, colleges and in the government.
That is the most comforting alternative, yes.
I kinda wish there were captions for the dialogue in the court. I had a hard time understanding what was said between McCarthy and Welch due to the understandably bad audio of the time and my not so understandably bad hearing. Other than that, thanks for uploading the video.
You can find same video in black and white with clearer audio. Hope it helps.
You can find same video in black and white with clearer audio. Hope it helps.
He says that until today he didnt realize how cruel mccarthy was, that he likes to think himself a gentle man but mcarthy will have to look elsewhere for forgiveness and that he has smeared the witness enough have you no sense of decency.
Sounds like history is repeating itself.
Wanna know something? My friend said that in class today.. She said that it sounds like history repeating itself but it's not supposed to do that
Missouri needs a Senator like Symington again
Definitely. The GOP is now using McCarthy-ite tactics by blaming China for everything that's wrong with the world.
@@sayyestofairness4266 more worrying than that, they've fooled people across rural america into thinking democrats are all communists
@@everettduncan7543 - And they have done a great job convincing them that the GOP cares about them when GOP only cares about tax cuts and government money for people that are rich (paycheck protection act).
This was like the Salem Witch Trials, point your finger at anyone and call them a communist
"Oh you like potatoes? COMMUNIST, ARREST HIM!" That era was just a huge 1st ammendment violation.
Actually, that isn’t remotely how the Salem witch trials went down. The play “The Crucible” was written as a criticism of the red scare, but in real life people were not convicted of witchcraft based on the accusations of children. 53 people admitted to being witches and werewolves on their own accord. Likely hallucinogenic drug use.
He was right though. We should have listened.
Arthur Miller wrote the play The Crucible on the Salem trials. Miller wrote it as an allegory of McCarthyism.
@wajidhussain5305 it wasn't remotely like that at all. The Salem Witch Trials were a clear case of the Emperor wearing no clothes. McCarthy and those who were weary of Communists were not looking for people who thought taxes should be raised to pay for more welfare. They were not looking for people who'd read the Communist Manifesto in college. They were asking "Were you a member of a secret organization taking orders from a foreign power intentionally designed to destroy the current political system and implement a totalitarian dictatorship based on violence."
In Salem, there were no witches. In the 50's there WERE communists. Stalin and the USSR got the nuclear bomb through a network of communist spies that stole the tech from Los Alamos. MacCarthy may have over reached but he wasn't delusional. It was a legitimate threat.
48? He looked awful.
Anybody believing that you can die at the age of 48 from alcohol abuse is extremely susceptible to the propaganda they are trying to push. You'd have to be drinking like 2 gallons of liquor a day to die that early from alcohol.
Seemed like a big alcoholic and/or smoker, plus for some reason people aged much quicker back then
He enjoyed the power to destroy innocent people for no reason other than them having a different ideology than his own. His demise was swift, and justice was served in an ice-cold glass of Bourbon.
Thanks Trotsky
A lot of them were completly innocent too.
The whole thing started when McArthy made an offhanded comment at a very small venue, and got an extremely big reaction. As he was failing politically and not likely to get re-elected, he leaned into it, making accusing people of communism his political brand.
Some of them, there was some sort of communist connection, but not all of them, and that's not why he made the accusations.
You are a communist
McCarthy and Ted Cruz look a lot alike.
Ya, they don't promise free stuff for votes to pathetic losers that don't want to get a job
Conservatism is a mental disability.
RedditISahole Oh look, a Ted Cruz supporter?
Joe McCarthy and Adam Schiff look a lot alike to me.
jon j this took me out homie 🤣🤣🤣
Man I wish we had that accountability today
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?" is the line I'll always remember. I knew it was big news cause I sold papers on the street. But I was only 9 and I never knew what it really was all about until I got older. After he said that, McCarthy continued to ramble along in that monotone voice, not really making any sense about mundane things. It was pitiful to see him speaking with nobody listening to him.
Old geezer mumbling about decency, yeah a big line there. Nothing they said was big.
@@Alen725 Found the red-baiter.
And you are a fool if you don’t see that every single thing he predicted has come true.
McCarthy was 100% right were are going into communist fast. The majority is always liberals that know nothing and are filled with hate carrying water for the communist so ofc he got laughed at that's exactly whats happening now.
@alienlife7754
McCarthy was right about Russian agents infiltrating the government. However, he never catched a single one of them.
All his policies amounted to nothing but mere fear mongering. Keeping the plebs scared and obedient at the cost of a few hundred lives and careers ruined.
That's his legacy.
but then you find out about the soviet cables and find out the truth.
Because it's current year there was no cables
BS.
But a question for you; Why was communism so v!0lent and fail every time it was tried? It was sold as the reasonable answer to the worlds economic and social problems yet what it opposed thrived and won and represented greater freedom.
Joshua Willis not in the current year but there years later someone’s whistle blew to the soviets that we had intel on them. Not only that but Russia had put in couples from Russia acting as American citizens. It is the only conspiracy theory proven true.
@@becauseitscurrentyear8397 Only 9 of the hundreds of names McCarthy named were found in the Venona Reports, it was unlikely that McCarthy actually knew anything about it. If anything McCarthy was hindering actual efforts to find communists with his fearmongering.
@@86SuperRay fast forward to 2020 and you can see clear as day that the subversion and disinformation tactics have worked wonders for them hahaha you continue to believe the media's propaganda about McCarthy just like the mindless zombie they trained you to be.
We need to stop electing people named McCarthy.
Actually there may have been some truth to what he was saying about Communists being tolerated in the military. Years ago I read a book about Oswald, and it said that when he was a young Marine stationed in Japan working as a radar tech, that he openly received Communist magazines in his mail and that the Marine Corps didn’t care. Some of his fellow Marines were shocked that he was so open about his support of Russian and Communism, receiving books and magazines, attending meetings of a Communist group in town (I don’t recall the name of the city where he was stationed), and basically thumbing his nose at the Corp, all without any inquiry or action being taken. This would have been in the late 50s.
It’s a good thing none of Gen Z is enticed by the ideas of socialism and communism, whatsoever
Coming soon to US History Channel: "6 months later the senate censors him. His reign of terror is over... he falls into the grip of alcoholism."
…and is still a senator.
But it was a terror for the pinkos 😆
@@romanboxing3959 McCarthy had people doctor photos and forge stuff, he wasn't actually rooting out any communists(maybe some I guess considering the scale), he was putting on a show, and that's why the army thing failed. He's an actor, not a crusader.
I'm surprised the Smithsonian omitted McCarthy's addiction to morphine, as well as alcohol.
I'm surprised they omitted he was also a homosexual and a communist himself. The way he acted he was clearly projecting. History should remember him for being all the things he weaponized against others.
Umm they mentioned his alcoholism at the end
Quite clearly
Ever hear of Hunter Biden ?
@@joelonzello4189 Apples and Oranges, Einstein.
Here we go again 🙄
It's symptomatic of YT viewership's general ignorance that no commenter is mentioning Roy Cohn, McCarthy's chief counsel, who was Trump's mentor during his formative years and taught him, among other things, to flout rules and the law as well as never to admit that he's wrong.
Some books & even Wikipedia states that McCarthy was a morphine addict & died from hepatitis (sometimes contracted by addicts) so to this day the alcohol related death may be kinder to him than the truth.
He was murdered by the commies.
The Original Alex Jones
The Original Adam Schiff
And just like him he was right about everything
@@father042 Alex Jones ends up being right eventually. I always thought he was crazy until bit by hit he’s been proven correct
@@purromemes7395 Right? about what? I'm lost
@@xavihdez5060 he said there would be a massive pandemic a while back, he talked about trump winning, he talked about the UFO footage... all of which became known to be true eventually
On the original TV broadcast, you don't get the sense of how physically close Welch and McCarthy were. There at the same table!! I thought they were across the room from each other. So Welch was really in his face. That took a lot of guts.
0:30 McCarthy: "This committee may determine whether this country will live or die"
And the USA died that day when the Hollywood communists succeed in their skillfully crafted smear campaigns, lies and character assassinations of McCarthy.
This was accurate. Stalin and the Soviets were bent on world domination and the subjugation of the US
The world has been a better place since he passed lol
Interesting how he and Yuri Bezmanov both died of “alcoholism” 🙄
if it were you against the world how well would you do?
@@zackp5294 he chose the fight and had plenty of support.
the communists murdered them both
They’re both are hero’s n truth tellers
Makes you wonder what they have planned for us common truth-tellers 😰
Historical Fact: *it was very interesting to find out that House of Representatives, Democratic Representative Samuel Dickstein of New York and the politician who founded the House UnAmerican Activities Committee in the first place, was being paid by the NKVD (WW2 Soviet predecessor of the infamous KGB) for classified information. Ironically, the founder of the very committee wrongly associated with McCarthy was a Soviet agent. Instead, McCarthy was a Senator and Tail Gunner (McCarthy's nickname) was the chairman of the Government Operations Committee and its Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the United States Senate*
What gets me is the fact that it's 1954 the US Army has just come out of the Korean War. So why would anyone believe it?
Yeah its not like we have marxist on the streets and brainwashed comnunist youth right? Wrong.
Maybe the fact the army was already having investigations into probable subversives
Because the right wing extremists saw Korea as a failure, and they were looking for a scapegoat. Of course, this is nothing more than a childish emotional response, which, as you correctly point out, was not likely to land well with the general populace who still saw Eisenhower as a hero and were comfortable giving both him and the Army the benefit of the doubt. Emotions are emotions, and thinking had little to do with it.
1:15 "I don't think you have any conception of the danger of the Communist Party"
The manchurian candidate 1962 portrayed a similar event!
McCarthy reminds me of all the other angry, aggressive boozers with no recovery that I've known and had to deal with in my life - all swinging wild and destructively against those around them in order to feel powerful. He died of cirrhosis.
That's sad.
I thought he died of hepatitis...?
“But evidence accumulated from a variety of sources-including Soviet archives-since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s shows that McCarthy’s charges were, in numerous cases, neither false nor hysterical-but correct.”
From The Vindication of Joseph McCarthy by Andrew Bernstein
Remember horrible mcCarthy during the fifties - now, 70 years later, we have a new awful mcCarthy...
Everything you believe about Joe McCarthy and trump is false.
Yup, Joe Biden.
@@openmind2464 I see, you are totally CLOSED ...
@@BerraPettersson to what information?
@@openmind2464 CLOSED AGAINST T R U E INFORMATION...
"Good Night and Good Luck"
70 years later and McCarthy was proven right. We all owe you an apology sir.
Yeah, but he was also taken down by a fearless and moral journalist named Edward R. Murrow who went after the POS at great risk to himself.
Yes, exactly and too many people don't remember or never heard of Edward R. Murrow! Great point!!
Just look at the situation now. He was far more right than he could ever have known.
No he wasn’t. We’re not communist. We’re more capitalist than before
@@joshuawillis602 All of our institutions have been infiltrated by neo-commies
How?
@@bman3794 what do you mean how? Look around see General Milley was talking about reading marx etc not long ago. Don't forget his secret communications with the ccp regime. The woke political ethos infecting the military.
@@bman3794 The Verona files proved he was much more correct than anyone thought. Multiple cases where the FBI ruled people were innocent but in reality they weren’t.
Shame someone didn't take him out earlier.
Joseph McCarthy's downfall was too much Bourbon!
He looks healthy to me for some one who died from alcoholism.
He was addicted to morphine as well.
Healthy? He looks 70 yet he was in his 40s
@@afriqiyyya people aged faster back then.
He was overweight, smoked like a fiend, and was an alcoholic. I think he looked terrible for his age.
He deserved to lose his power
Another sad chapter in Congressional history
Fascinating. It's a brilliant thing that he was stopped!
History repeats itself. All I could think while watching this is MTG.
No one messes with the Army!
The present of time was a former General in World War II
ya.. so if i were the enemy, i'd find way mess up the Army first!
Many in his own party turn against him. 🤦♀️☹️
See how Dems turn on their own today ?
As you can see now, he was right about them as well.
His “downfall” was going to the back of the bus. He was never punished.
Well he completely lost his entire political career, all his power, and all his money, and he spent the last few decades of his life drinking himself to death as a sad old broke alcoholic, eventually his liver killing him from cirrhosis from the alcoholism.
President Eisenhower is the one who brought him down although he did it all in secret. He planned this for years, and his plan worked perfectly, it made Mccarthy lose all his credibility and they prevented him from ever getting elected again. Mccarthy's mistake was to criticise the military, claiming that it was overridden with communist spies. Eisenhower, being the top military General before his presidency and now was obviously the commander in chief, absolutely hated Mccarthy from that day onwards. Though he never spoke about it publicly. But yeah, that was such a slap in the face to a 5 star general like Eisenhower that it became his mission to take down Joe mcarthy completely and utterly so that he'd never be able to tear the country apart with lies again. And Eisenhower won that war, that secret war, like he won every war. That's what he does. He's _THE_ General of generals, generally
@@duffman18 I know, Ike was awesome!
Meanwhile, lies? What lies? A lot McCarty mentioned was true! He was still a senator, he voted, he didn’t lose his career, unless you want to say he lost his power that he had (unrivaled till this day). He was always an alcoholic….He is Irish don’t you know. I’d say who he took out suffered way worse…yes? And if you ask me, some of them deserved that fate
Very weak... I guess it was too short to get into any detail? What did his hearings accomplish? Anyone prosecuted? Any good biographers document now the allegations?
of course not
Study a history book to find out that McCarthy was a stone cold liar.
Read blacklisted by history
@@ZombyMammoth the assassination of James Forrestal
Amazing!!
Notice these Commies will never let you here McCarthy speech . Just character attacks like good Commies!
In the grip of the grape...
Chasing phantoms.
Sounds familiar?
A “Happy Days” version of Alex Jones.
Why does the number "45" suddenly come to mind?
wow i just love online classes
Joseph McCarthy deserves a public apology
He was a pederast
5/31/24.....yyyyup.
PBS AMERICAN EXPERIENCE did a much more complete retelling of this
He looked 65. Not 48. Lol 😂
Look at the Generals we have.
Today He'd just join Fox news
Well after that it backfired.
It may be unsavoury but it shows the vital role of a free media in a democratic society. Can anyone image that happening in the USSR or China?
Yes, one can, the USSR was a democracy, if the 2 party dictatorship of the US was a democracy, then USSR certainty is
You're right, I noticed Donald Trump deliberately starved 20 million people to death while he collectivised US agriculture and Joe Biden send thousands every week to the penal camps in Alaska@@SteveOmnipotent
He did all that damage and he hadn't even hit _fifty_ yet?!
He preyed on people's fears, as all demagogues do.
@@TheSaltydog07 He was actually correct. One of the greatest Russian Spies was a man who sold artwork in Langley Virginia. CIA employees routinely purchased from him all the time. And you can't deny the subversive actions in colleges in the 60's through today of sworn socialists. He was correct. He always was.
Despicable human
McCarthy was way ahead of his time, wasn’t he?
So was G Edward Griffin.
Didn’t this Smithsonian channel do a series on all the communists in FDR’s and Trumans cabinet…?
In the end, he was right!
Although McCarthy needed to be disposed of, this account does very little to explain how it was actually carried out.
Explain Lee Harvey Oswald.
True. Oswald was an admitted Marxist at aged 16, yet the Marine Corps still enlisted him.
Now as we look back on this, it seems he was right.
Why isn't this taught in school early on?
Who’s here after the space force officer got discharged after criticizing Marxism?
Definitely. Not to mention the rampant stench of Wokizm in the Navy and Marines right now. American Army has indeed become the next victim to the phrase "becoming the very monsters they despised and sought to destroy".
Since when is diversity considered Marxism.
@@leviticuscornwall9631 so POCs should remain a minority in the US?
@@leviticuscornwall9631 not everything against your view is Marxism. Your not Joe McCarthy.
@@pemdemica1712 yes they should remain a minority. In fact, they shouldn’t be here at all. And yes everything i disagree with is Marxism
*Ain't no good red but a dead red*
McCarthy's right hand man, Roy Cohn, was Donald Trump's mentor.
Cohn was bedding McCarthy and Edgar Hoover
I love the comment” destroyed by television” !
We know who owns the media don’t we?
One of the greatest ad lib quotes of all time.
"Have you no sense of decency, sir?"
If these words were said in 2020 in respect of President Trump's cruel slurs and lies, they would have no impact at all.
Okay comrade
Your brain is obsessed. you're being played like a fiddle.
The Mockingbird media really has you in its clutches.
@@conveyor2OK, Adolf.
2021 Says HELLO! to 1954...
2024.
He was right about everything
Are there any videos giving the other side of the story?
Hardly. Your best bet is to TH-cam search Army McCarthy hearings and filter the results to only show long (20+ min) videos and watch some of the hearings for yourself.
the commies probably censored all those.
There is no other side of the story, just like how there’s no other side to how Johnson lied about the Gulf of Tonkin or how JFK approved of the Bay of Pigs
McCarthy's side of the story was the same as today's. He was lying in order to gain political power. He, wife Jean and Roy Cohn were upfront about it, at least to each other. They went so far as to manufacture fake memos, which were shown to be fake when the secretary said to have typed them wavered on the stand.
@@switchbladekid1365 oh that's evil. but some form of cancelism is necessary at times when political infiltration becomes outrageous and toxic, that it threatens your own existence.
I wasn’t wrong
JOE YOU DON'T SAY SO ??
He knew what was coming he just sniffed it out early.
This guy had the audacity to criticize War Hero Eisenhower as well, may he burn in hell!
Rick Enman Eisenhower was a stain on American history. War hero? He spent the war shacked up with a hoe.
Eisenhower was in fact a member of the Left-wing, pro-Communist Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). He was a traitor and a phony who duped the American people into thinking he was a conservative Republican.
The palpable fear and paranoia over an ideology that makes more sense for human beings than the one we have would be funny, if it weren’t tragic.
Then why don't you go live in China?
You’re ignorant of the history
Communism is the equivalent of a cancer affecting the world
Betrayal by Rulers A MUST READ that will detail ALL
Thanks Man
lol but he coddled fascists, needed those bomb makers
America needs another McCarthy, now more than ever.
It's surprising McCarthy was so bitterly determined to punish the Army just because it wouldn't promote David Shine, Roy Cohn's love interest at the time, to the rank he felt he deserved.
History has proven that to be a lie and a fabrication.
@@JohnB-dr8sk No, it hasn't. That is exactly the reason he attacked the Army. And he may have had a false sense of security because no one in the GOP wanted to stop him as long as he was winning elections for them.
@@switchbladekid1365 Post your direct, legal proof then (hint -- you can't).
Today we're just starting to realize that Joe was right ever since
The terrifying threat
He lived in the wrong timeline
Wdym
@@chaxi155 maybe he should have lived today.
He would have grilled Mark Milley
Venona project proved McCarthy was right!
Not really . . .
Huh...right about what? McCarthy was just making up fake news. Lies that had nothing to do with actual espionage.
Thinking of the twilight zone tv series avec dennis hopper
0:20 rolling in cameras
“Rein of terror” 🤣 those idiots seem to be our congress today.
Wow this channel has no bias opinion does it.
-_-
1:20 new media cameras
Republicans still never changed.
He was murdered in the hospital…not alcoholic….
not surprised.
Sounds like Communist action. Too worried this blood hound would sniff them out.
@@arnowisp6244 never thought of that. Any evidence/ hint indicating who is behind it? Rockefeller...?
@@evelynn_teoh Dude, too many potential suspects. Basically any communist would be on that list