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The Army-McCarthy hearings aired on television for five weeks. Senator Joseph
McCarthy, chairman of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations,
charged that the Secretary of the Army, Robert T. Stevens, and Army Counsel,
John G. Adams, were hampering the committee's attempts to uncover communists in
the military. McCarthy failed to prove his charges. The hearings, given broad
television and newspaper coverage, helped to end the anti-Communist witch hunt.
By the end, Senator McCarthy was publicly disgraced. The Senate condemned
McCarthy.
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