Witch Hunt

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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

A Conspiracy So Immense - The World of Joe McCarthy. By David M. Oshinsky - 1983
Gift of Mr. Bernard Martin.
WWII radar developer and D-Day veteran.
Reviewer of captured enemy technical documentation at Camp Evans.
Falsely suspended during Witch-Hunt.
Reinstated with all back-pay.
Infoage founding member.

Copyright 1983 by The Free Press, A Division of Macmillan, Inc.
Library of Congres Catalog Card Number - 77-18474

Contents
       Acknowledgments    ix
    1.    Beginnings    1
    2.    G.I. Judge    21
    3.    Gunning for the Senate    36
    4.    The Pepsi-Cola Kid    53
    5.    Rock Bottom    72
    6.    The Red Bogey in America, 1917-1950    85
    7.    Wheeling    103
    8.    Battle of the Billygoats    115
    9.    Stand or Fall    130
    10.    The Lattimore Connection    139
    11.    Declaration of Conscience    158
    12.    The Fourth Estate    179
    13.    "An Infamy So Black .    191
    14.    "Slimy Creatures"    203
    15.    Tydings's Revenge    214
    16.    Ike    226
    17.    Gearing for Battle    247
    18.    Voices Within the Voice    265
    19.    Of Diplomats and Greek Ships    286
    20.    Friends and Enemies    301
    21.    A Discouraging Summer    315
    22.    The Monmouth Hearings    330
    23.    White House Blues    345
    24.    Who Promoted Peress?    355
    25.    The Chicken Luncheon    372
    26.    "The Fault, Dear Brutus"    390
    27.    Setting the Ground Rules    405
    28.    The Hearings Begin    416
    29.    Executive Privilege    435
    30.    The Eleven Memoranda    446
    31.    "So Reckless, So Cruel"    457
    32.    Censure    472
    33.    Final Years    495
    Notes    509
    Selective Bibliography    565
    Index    581

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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