GeoByte1:The McCarthy era of the 1950s is still considered a sorry chapter in America's history of personal rights and freedoms.
GeoByte2:"McCarthyism" has come to mean the public discrediting of persons by means of unproved and false charges.
GeoByte3:Senator Joseph McCarthy destroyed many lives with reckless and unfounded charges that various Americans were Communists.
GeoByte4:The McCarthy Hearings were televised, and Senator Joseph McCarthy, who had charged that various Americans were Communist, was exposed as a bully and a fraud.