Senator Joseph McCarthy – Vindicated

On a frosty February night in 1950, freshman Senator Joseph R. McCarthy told a Republican audience in Wheeling, West Virginia, that he held “a list of 205 Communists” working in the State Department. Reporters pounced, critics scoffed, and the phrase McCarthyism soon became shorthand for reckless accusation. Yet the deeper question never vanished: Was McCarthy’s…