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Reporters Quiz Joe McCarthy
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After closed door hearings at the Boston Federal Building, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy talks to the press about subversive activities at the General Electric Company. Such closed door sessions left McCarthy free to shape the reporting of a day's disclosures.
November 18, 1953
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