Who was Senator Joe McCarthy? What charges brought Murrow’s probe?

Joe McCarthy was a Wisconsin senator would started “McCarthyism”, a term used to describe unproven accusations of communism on many people by McCarthy and his supporters such as politicians, actors, and famous athletes and singers.

“Murrows probe” was a Tv report by Edward Murrow exposing McCarthy’s hypocrisy and contradictory statements. The report was in response to McCarthy’s continued communist accusations in an attempt to stop him. The attempt succeeded, McCarthy fell pretty quickly from political power after that.