La perdición de Joseph McCarthy fue acusar al ejército de comunismo

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00:00En el año 1954, con su poder en su peak,

00:04el Senado McCarthy toma un gamble.

00:07Armed con el flimsiño de evidencia,

00:09él toma un respeto institucional, la U.S. Army.

00:15Él dice que es infiltrado por comunistas

00:18y que los compañeros de senioridad son turningen a blindar.

00:24El explosivo de charges trigger a publicación en el Senado.

00:28Live TV coverage provides millions of Americans

00:31with their first sustained look at the crusading senator

00:34and his bare-knuckle methods.

00:37In this committee, activities may well determine

00:41whether this nation will live or die.

00:44I want to make it clear that the United States Army

00:47does not coddle communists.

00:50This committee knows that.

00:52The American people know that.

00:54For over a month, McCarthy and his team

00:57exchange fire with the Army's Council.

01:00I've been working to uncover...

01:01June 9th, 1954.

01:04A lawyer for the Army, Joseph Welch,

01:06demands that McCarthy's staff release

01:10its secret list of alleged Army subversives.

01:12Mr. Chairman, Mr. Chairman...

01:14Apparently every time...

01:16McCarthy responds by dredging up a past link

01:19between a young lawyer in Welch's firm

01:21and the Communist Party.

01:23I don't think you have any conception

01:26of the danger of the Communist Party.

01:30After years of bullying his victims,

01:33McCarthy is smug and confident.

01:36But Welch counterattacks.

01:37Until this moment, Senator,

01:40I think I never really gauged

01:42your cruelty or your recklessness.

01:46If it were in my power to forgive you

01:49for your reckless cruelty,

01:51I would do so.

01:53I like to think I'm a gentleman.

01:55But your forgiveness will have to come

02:06from someone other than me.

02:11Millions of Americans watch.

02:14He was just basing, he wasn't basing...

02:17Senator, if you say we not drop this,

02:20let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.

02:23Look, you've done enough.

02:25Have you no sense of decency, sir?

02:29At long last, have you left no sense of decency?

02:35McCarthy's gamble, taking on the Army, backfires.

02:38Mr. Welch here has...

02:41His charges don't stick.

02:44Many in his own party turn against him.

02:48Six months later, the Senate officially censures him.

02:51His reign of terror is over

02:54and his reputation in tatters.

02:58He falls into the grip of alcoholism,

03:01which in 1957 kills him at the age of 48.

03:07McCarthy, in many ways,

03:09was destroyed by the power of television,

03:11a power that in the 1950s

03:13will only continue to grow.

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03:16Absolutely.

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