McCarthyism, HUAC, and Religion

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McCarthyism, HUAC, and Religion 1950s Red Scare

Joseph McCarthy -Senator from Wisconsin Head of Subcommittee on Investigations Roy Cohn “McCarthyism” – finding “Reds” in gov’t Attacked: George C. Marshall Army Democratic Adversaries

McCarthy

Roy Cohn

George C. Marshall

Downfall of Mc Army-McCarthy Hearings (1953-4) Attacked army personnel on tv Brashness and meanness stunned Americans Joseph Welch – “Have you no decency?” Edward R Murrow starts attacking Mc Censured by Senate

Edward R Murrow

Joseph Welch “Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MO2iiovYq70

HUAC House on Un-American Activities Committee – 1947 Investigate subversive, “communist” activities Richard Nixon Famous Hearings “Hollywood 10” Attacked Hollywood for being pro-soviet Led to blacklisting Alger Hiss State Dept – accused of being a spy

Hollywood Ten

Alger Hiss

The Majestic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ecwKeU1_IU

What led to McCarthyism/HUAC? Terrible Year of ‘49 USSR: A-bomb China – Communist Rosenberg Trial Julius and Ethel – ordinary citizens Spied for USSR – secrets of a-bomb executed

Rosenbergs

Religion in the 1950s USSR – “godless” enemy Religious Revivals Billy Graham Oral Roberts Civil Religion “one nation under God” – Pledge of Allegiance “In God We Trust” – US currency

Billy Graham

Oral Roberts

Money – Irony?

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