File spoon-archives/marxism-international.archive/marxism-international_1998/marxism-international.9803, message 84


Subject: Re: M-I: Query on McCarthysim
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 1998 22:49:10 -0500 (EST)
From: "hoov" <hoov-AT-freenet.tlh.fl.us>


> Could anyone give me the date of McCarthy's attack on
> the Pentagon and say whether this was before or after the Ed Murrow report?
> Gary

McCarthy began to concentrate on the Army at the beginning of 1954...

24 February 1954: Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens had been summoned
to testify before McCarthy's subcommittee...he had prepared a statement
accusing McCarthy of undermining Army morale...but he never read it...
instead, he met with McCarthy and accepted a "Memorandum of Agreement".
..this was interpreted as complete and abject surrender on the part
of Stevens...

Eisenhower began to move against McCarthy almost immediately...

10 days later, Murrow used his CBS documentary show, "See It Now,"
for a film-clip program that was decidedly anti-McCarthy (CBS
stations reported calls that were overwhelmingly supportive of
the program)...

the Army began a counter-attack on 11 March 1954...

the Army-McCarthy hearing began on 22 April 1954 and continued for
36 days...Michael Hoover


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