You may be able to fool us. Get the guys, and put the lie detector on them. His polygraph bluff gave McCarthy an excuse to storm out of the proceedings. The truth is that neither the subcommittee nor anyone else in Congress had pushed him to sit in on the Malmedy proceedings or was fazed that he was quitting. But the always-eager press did care, and so, even before McCarthy addressed his fellow senators, he was ready with a news release blasting his colleagues.
McCarthy, has lost his temper and with it, the sound impartial judgment which should be exercised in this matter. McCarthy was irrepressible. The Armed Services Committee took an unorthodox action of its own, unanimously approving a vote of confidence in Baldwin. Signing the measure were such lions of the chamber as Lyndon Johnson, Harry F. Byrd, William F. Everyone but McCarthy got the point. The subcommittee, meanwhile, pursued its mission to determine whether the Army had been fair in probing the massacre at Malmedy.
The three senators interviewed witnesses, from the SS perpetrators and their defense team to investigators, prosecutors, judges, religious leaders and others on all sides.
Everyone McCarthy asked the panel to talk to it did, and it extended him the unusual courtesy of letting a non-member cross-examine witnesses. Prisoners were checked out by Public Health Service doctors and dentists, looking for signs of abuse.
But it was even more plain-spoken in its primary conclusions: There was little if any beating, kicking or other brutalization of prisoners.
Their trials were fair. That Senate verdict notwithstanding, the military was already moving to defuse the controversies in West Germany and the United States. Bowing to popular pressure, some of the death sentences of the SS murderers had been commuted, and the rest would be. By the late s all the former SS prisoners would be freed. One of the last to walk out of prison, in December , was Joachim Peiper, commander and namesake of the SS unit that mowed down the surrendering GIs in the fields near Malmedy.
While he had been useful to the Republican Party during the years of the Democratic administration of President Harry S. Eisenhower took over the White House in were becoming political liabilities. The hearings were a fiasco for McCarthy.
A few weeks later, the Army hearings dribbled to a close with little fanfare and no charges were upheld against the Army by the committee. In December , the Senate voted to censure McCarthy for his conduct.
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Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present. During the late s and early s, the prospect of communist subversion at home and abroad seemed frighteningly real to many people in the United States.
For many Americans, the most enduring The Red Scare was hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U. House of Representatives, investigated allegations of communist activity in the U.
Established in , the committee wielded its subpoena power as a Murrow were accused of harboring Communist sympathies. While it would later be proven after the end of the Cold War that some individuals such as Julius Rosenberg were, in fact, committing espionage for the Soviet Union, McCarthy regularly flung invectives and accusations without any evidence.
When Edward R. McCarthyism would soon end up fizzling out, due to fallout from the Army-McCarthy hearings, his interview with Edward R. These claims are frequently made without any evidence and sometimes with much proof to the contrary. The same treatment materialized for Kyle Rittenhouse. Many of these accusations make very little sense. Ben Shapiro, a devout practitioner of the Jewish faith, was recently assailed as not only a white supremacist but also a Nazi and a fascist.
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