Army–McCarthy hearings
The Army–McCarthy hearings were a series of televised hearings held by the United States Senate's Subcommittee on Investigations (April–June 1954) to investigate conflicting accusations between the United States Army and U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy. The Army accused McCarthy and his chief counsel Roy Cohn of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, a former McCarthy aide and friend of Cohn's. McCarthy counter-charged that this accusation was made in bad faith and in retaliation for his recent aggressive investigations of suspected communists and security risks in the Army.
| Army–McCarthy hearings | |
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Joseph McCarthy (left) chats with Roy Cohn at the hearings | |
| Event | Senate hearing derived from Senator Joseph McCarthy's hunt for communists in the US |
| Time | April–June 1954 |
| Place | Washington, D.C. |
| Participants | The two sides of the hearing:
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| Chairman | Senator Karl Mundt |
| Result | End of the McCarthy era |
Chaired by Senator Karl Mundt, the hearings convened on March 16, 1954, and received considerable press attention, including gavel-to-gavel live television coverage on ABC and DuMont (April 22 – June 17). The media coverage, particularly television, greatly contributed to McCarthy's decline in popularity and his eventual censure by the Senate the following December.