American Decades
Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
Speech
By: Joseph McCarthy
Date: February 9, 1950
Source: McCarthy, Joseph. "Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia." February 9, 1950. Reprinted in Congressional Record of the Senate, February 20, 1950. Available online at http://azimuth.harcourtcollege.com/history/ayers/chapter27/... ; website home page: http://www.azimuth.harcourtcollege.com (accessed June 18, 2003).
About the Author: Joseph McCarthy (1908–1957), born in Appleton, Wisconsin, earned his law degree from Marquette University. When World War II (1939–1945) erupted, he served as an intelligence officer. He returned from the war to successfully run for the U.S. Senate. McCarthy became one of the most notorious senators in U.S. history as his pursuit of American...
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1950's Government and Politics Primary Sources
- Speech at Wheeling, West Virginia
- Presidential Reactions to Joseph McCarthy
- NSC-68: United States Objectives and Programs for National Security
- The Korean War
- Statement Upon Sentencing the Rosenbergs
- "'Old Soldiers Never Die'
- Agreements Between the United States and Japan
- "The Checkers Speech"
- Television Campaign Commercials
- "The Row of Dominoes"
- Letter to Ngo Dinh Diem
- Speech by Dwight Eisenhower to the U.S. Congress, February 22, 1955
- African American and Women Voters in the 1950s
- The Little Rock Crisis
- Creation of NASA
- "The Kitchen Debate"
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
The 1950's: Primary Sources
