There is nothing unusual about televising Congressional hearings. When I was in elementary school, I came home to find my mom watching the Army-McCarthy hearings. I did not understand what was happening, but TV was new to our house. Anything on the screen was miraculous and gripping to me. My mom believed what she was hearing from Joe McCarthy even though she was a Democrat. Sometimes religion overpowered politics in our house. McCarthy was Irish Catholic so he could not possibly be leading us all astray, could he?
McCarthy operated under a belief system that had nothing to do with the Vatican. His credo was that the military and government agencies were infiltrated with “card-carrying” Communists. Not only did he believe that the State Department, the Pentagon, information services, and military research facilities were crawling with seditious moles, he was an evangelist as powerful as Billy Graham at the time.
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