Army Counsel Joseph Welch looks angry and waves a hand as he demands that Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.), not try to serve as both witness and judge in the McCarthy-Army row, June 16, 1954. Their ...

To the Republican members of Iowa’s congressional delegation: A straight line can be drawn from one of the most despicable episodes in the history of the United States to today. Donald Trump, a ...

During Senator Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts in the 1950s, he decided to go after the U.S. Army. The army hired Joseph Welch as its lawyer to make its case during what is known as the ...

This is the classic question asked of Senator Joe McCarthy, the pompous demagogue of the 1950’s by Joseph Welch, a lawyer in the Army-McCarthy hearings. I can think of no better words to ask the most ...

1 Edward R. Murrow — June 9 marked the 71st anniversary of a moment in the McCarthy hearings when Joseph Welch asked Sen. Joe McCarthy the questions which many historians believe ended McCarthy’s ...