In 1950 Joseph McCarthy declared that Owen Lattimore was a "top Russian spy.” Lattimore was exonerated five years later, but first he had to defend himself in two separate congressional hearings. Here's how they worked.
The story of McCarthyism is, in many respects, a story of fear. We spoke with three children who had a first-hand experience with the second Red Scare.
In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations. We dramatized the actual hearing transcripts of Hughes’s testimony, made public 50 years later.
