June 9, 1954 –
Have you left no sense of decency?
During Senate-Army hearings, Sen Joseph McCarthy charged that one of Joseph Welch’s attorneys had ties to a Communist organization.
As an amazed television audience looked on, Welch responded with the immortal lines that ultimately ended McCarthy’s career. At that point, the Senate gallery erupted in applause for the only brave soul to have finally stood up in the committee hearings against the “Red Scare” witch hunt that had paralyzed the nation’s psyche.
And so it goes
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