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Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.
44 Cast Members
Peter Boyle
Joseph McCarthy
John Forsythe
Paul Cunningham
Burgess Meredith
Joseph Welch
Patricia Neal
Margaret Chase Smith
Jean Stapleton
Mrs. DeCamp
Ned Beatty
Sylvester
Philip Abbott
Scott Lucas
Wallace Rooney
Speaker
Heather Menzies
Logan
Wesley Addy
Middleton
Karen Carlson
Jean Kerr
John Carradine
Wisconsin Farmer
Charles Cioffi
Logan's Boss
Diana Douglas
Sarah
Andrew Duggan
Dwight Eisenhower
Henry Jones
Armitage
Murray Matheson
Publisher
Allan Miller
Pete
Tim O'Connor
Librarian
Alan Oppenheimer
Eisenhower Publicist
