March 9, 1954 - No one familiar with the history of his country - TopicsExpress



          

March 9, 1954 - No one familiar with the history of his country can deny that Congressional committees are useful. It is necessary to investigate before legislating. But the line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one, and the junior senator from Wisconsin has stepped over it repeatedly. Edward R. Murrow, cigarette smoking, gin guzzling reporter took on the cigarette smoking, whiskey drinking junior senator and demagogue from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy and the Red Scare hysteria on his program, See It Now, on this date. Besides being arguably televisions finest hour, it clearly demonstrates the powers of gin over whiskey.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Mar 2014 13:13:44 +0000

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