Original photograph of Senator McCarthy, circa 1950

New York: International News Photos, Circa 1950. Vintage black and white photograph of Senator Joseph McCarthy holding a copy of the Washington Post with a headline discussing British physicist and Soviet spy Klaus Fuchs. With a manuscript ink annotation to the top edge noting McCarthy's name, and the stamp of International News Photos on the verso.

One week after Fuchs' arrest, McCarthy gave a now-infamous and inflammatory speech to the Republican Women's Club of Wheeling, West Virginia, producing a piece of paper on which he claimed were the names of over 200 suspected communists employed by the State Department. His statement garnered widespread media attention and led to the Senate's decision to investigate his claims through the Tydings Committee hearings, and was the first of the numerous unsubstantiated and ultimately fraudulent accusations McCarthy would make throughout the 1950s.

8 x 10 inches. Very Good plus, lightly toned to the edges, with faint diagonal creases to the corners.

[Book #152728]