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1 McCarthyism, HUAC, and Religion
1950s Red Scare

2 Joseph McCarthy -Senator from Wisconsin
Head of Subcommittee on Investigations Roy Cohn “McCarthyism” – finding “Reds” in gov’t Attacked: George C. Marshall Army Democratic Adversaries

3 McCarthy

4 Roy Cohn

5 George C. Marshall

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8 Downfall of Mc Army-McCarthy Hearings (1953-4)
Attacked army personnel on tv Brashness and meanness stunned Americans Joseph Welch – “Have you no decency?” Edward R Murrow starts attacking Mc Censured by Senate

9 Edward R Murrow

10 Joseph Welch “Have you no sense of decency sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?”

11 HUAC House on Un-American Activities Committee – 1947
Investigate subversive, “communist” activities Richard Nixon Famous Hearings “Hollywood 10” Attacked Hollywood for being pro-soviet Led to blacklisting Alger Hiss State Dept – accused of being a spy

12 Hollywood Ten

13 Alger Hiss

14 The Majestic

15 What led to McCarthyism/HUAC?
Terrible Year of ‘49 USSR: A-bomb China – Communist Rosenberg Trial Julius and Ethel – ordinary citizens Spied for USSR – secrets of a-bomb executed

16 Rosenbergs

17 Religion in the 1950s USSR – “godless” enemy Religious Revivals
Billy Graham Oral Roberts Civil Religion “one nation under God” – Pledge of Allegiance “In God We Trust” – US currency

18 Billy Graham

19 Oral Roberts

20 Money – Irony?

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