The Army-McCarthy 1953-1954 Communist Witch Hunt - Book on file
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The Army-McCarthy
1953-1954
Communist

Witch Hunt

McCarthy Overview
 
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October 20, 1953
In the Camp Evans Administration building (9001),  the former Marconi Wireless Station Staff Hotel.
Photo SC445821 on file at the National Archives

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   Buckley-1954

McCarthy and his Enemies.  By William F. Buckley Jr. and L. Brent Bozell - 1954


CONTENTS
CHAPTER    PAGE
PROLOGUE BY WILLIAM SCHLAMM    Vii

PART ONE

I THE PROBLEM     3
II THE BACKGROUND     5
III THE STATE DEPARTMENT, 1945—1947: An Earnest Effort     9
IV THE STATE DEPARTMENT, 1947—1950: Three Years of Inertia     18
The State Department and the United Nations     31

PART TWO

V THE FIRST CHARGES     41
VI THE TYDINGS SAGA: Introduction     62
Public Hearings: Whose Responsibility?     69
VII THE NINE PUBLIC CASES: An Invitation to Investigate 74
The Case of Dorothy Kenyon    . 76
The Case of Haldore Hanson    . 86
The Case of Philip Jessup .    . 97
The Case of Esther Brunauer    125
The Cases of Frederick Schuman and Harlow Shapley . .    . 136
The Case of Gustavo Duran ..    . 140
The Case of John Stewart Service .   147
The Case of Owen Lattimore .    . 153
VIII "WARMED-OVER CHARGES"     161
IX SOME UNANSWERED QUESTIONS . .    167
X A VINDICATION     192
XI CONFRONTATION     212
XII CLOSING RANKS: Some Proposals for the Civil Service 245

PART THREE

XIII SENATOR MCCARTHY'S METHOD     267
Introduction     267
The Smearing of Innocent People . .    270
The Publicizing of His Charges . .    282
The Use of Congressional Immunity .    286
Impugning the Loyalty of His Critics .    294
McCarthy As Against His Contemporaries    302
XIV THE NEW CONFORMITY     308
Our "Reign of Terror"     308
The Question of Conformity     316
McCarthyism's Call to Conformity    331
XV AFTERWORD     336
APPENDIX     341
A. Communist Front Connections of
McCarthy's "Public Cases" . .    343
B. The Controversy Over the Loyalty Files    351
C. Statistical Breakdown of Lee List and
McCarthy List     36o
D. List of Persons Accused by McCarthy     364
E. Press Coverage Given to McCarthy's Nine
Public Cases     383
F. The George Marshall Episode     388
NOTES     393
INDEX     401

Sources of further info on this topic:
On the Infoage website, our library and our archive -

A 1998 interview of Louis Kalpan, a Camp Evans employee suspended during the investigations.

 The ghost of Sen. Joseph McCarthy haunts Camp Evans. By Fred Carl, The Coast Star, May 15, 2003, Page 9

 McCarthy's probe had a long-lasting impact on Wall Twp.'s Camp Evans.  By Fred Carl, May 22, 2003, The Coast Star, Page 15

McCarthy's communist hunt unraveled at Wall facility - The Asbury Park Press, November 10, 2003 by Fred Carl

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