ARMY-MCCARTHY HEARINGS, THE {EXCERPTS} (TV)
Summary
These excerpts, compiled daily, were taken from hearings conducted by the Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee to examine the conflict between Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) and the U.S. Army. (McCarthy relinquished his position as subcommittee chairman for the duration of the hearings.) In highlights from this day's hearings, Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.) asks Roy Cohn, former chief counsel to the subcommittee, if he believes Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens is protecting communists. Joseph N. Welch, special counsel to the Army, questions Cohn about the Peress incident, a case in which controversy arose over the promotion of an Army dentist, Irving Peress, a former member of the American Labor Party. McCarthy states that Sen. Stuart Symington (D-Mo.) should testify, leading to a heated exchange between the two, during which Symington charges that "nobody in the Senate knows more about how to avoid testifying than the junior senator from Wisconsin." Welch questions Cohn about a memorandum he wrote regarding Stevens and John G. Adams, counselor for the Army. James St. Clair, Welch's assistant, questions Cohn about the hearings Cohn held at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. Cohn testifies that Stevens and Adams asked to have the hearings stopped. A recess is called until 10:00 the following morning. No commercials. (These excerpts were compiled by CBS for its affiliates.)
Details
- NETWORK: CBS
- DATE: June 8, 1954
- RUNNING TIME: 0:36:00
- COLOR/B&W: B&W
- CATALOG ID: T90:0004
- GENRE: News; Talk/Interviews
- SUBJECT HEADING: Communism - 1954; Fort Monmouth, NJ; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews; U S Army; Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954; U S Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Joseph R. McCarthy
- John L. McClellan
- Stuart Symington
- Joseph N. Welch
- Roy Cohn
- St. Clair, James
- John G. Adams
- Robert T. Stevens