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Point of Order (1963) by Emile de Antonio

Saturday, July 31, 1982, 8:00 pm

Senator Joe McCarthy’s Downfall

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San Francisco, CA, 94133

Point of Order (1963) by Emile de Antonio

Red Nightmare (1957) by Jack Webb, produced by the US Department of Defense

The famed 1954 Army/Senate hearings which were to be the notorious red-baiter’s undoing. Participating were many young politicians who would soon become power-wielders themselves (e.g. Robert Kennedy).