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Marking Welch's Stand Against McCarthy

Published June 8, 2004 at 11:00 PM CDT

Fifty years ago, a Massachusetts lawyer stood up to a U.S. senator and changed the nation's perception of him. The target was Wisconsin's Joseph McCarthy. The lawyer was Joseph Welch, who, after the anti-Communist McCarthy had revealed that a young lawyer working for Welch was a member of a suspect group, asked, "Senator, have you no decency?"

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