Joseph N. Welch
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June 9 In 1954, Army counsel Joseph N. Welch confronted Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy during the Senate-Army Hearings over McCarthy’s attack on a member of Welch’s law firm, Frederick G. Fisher. Said Welch: “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
Courtesy of the New York Times
A turning point in the "Red Menace" war on Freedom called McCarthyism - when a patriot took on the "good" McCarthy, and held him to the truth. Like a Villain would. Villain Respect (Posthumous Notation) to Joseph N. Welch - you spoke truth to power, and began the liberation of a nation.
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