Overview
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.
Cast
- Peter Boyle as Joseph McCarthy
- John Forsythe as Paul Cunningham
- Burgess Meredith as Joseph Welch
- Patricia Neal as Margaret Chase Smith
- Jean Stapleton as Mrs. DeCamp
- Ned Beatty as Sylvester
- Philip Abbott as Scott Lucas
- Wallace Rooney as Speaker
- Heather Menzies as Logan
- Wesley Addy as Middleton