Wheeling, WV Historian Margaret Brennan talked about Senator Joe McCarthy's remarks at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Wheeling, WV on February 9, 1950. Jim Townsend, Director, Levin Center for Oversight ...

Sixty-one years ago tonight Sen. Joseph McCarthy gave the speech to the Republican Women’s Club of Wheeling, West Virginia that ushered in the ugly era of McCarthyism.McCarthy was beginning his ...

On Feb. 9, 1950, to little fanfare, “The Pepsi-Cola Kid” had made his way to the town of Wheeling, West Virginia. Joseph Raymond McCarthy, a neophyte Senator from Wisconsin, was coming to make ...

McCarthy never sent a single “subversive” to jail, but, decades later, the spirit of his conspiracy-mongering endures.

A seventh death was confirmed Tuesday in West Virginia, where flash flooding hit Wheeling and nearby Triadelphia and Valley Grove areas over the weekend. Gov. Patrick Morrisey shared the tragic update ...

For several years before Joseph McCarthy first waved around his ever-changing list of supposed Communists in the State Department at a Republican dinner in Wheeling, West Virginia on February 9 ...

On Wednesday morning, West Virginia State Treasurer Larry Pack presented a $20,000 unclaimed property check to the city of Wheeling.

Senator McCarthy delivered the speech at a Lincoln Day dinner hosted by the Ohio County Republican Women's Club on February 9, 1950, at the McClure Hotel in Wheeling, West Virginia.

One of the Senate freshmen was Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who didn’t make much of a splash until he delivered a Lincoln Day speech on February 9, 1950, in Wheeling, West Virginia [PDF].

The earlier speech, in Wheeling, West Virginia, on Feb. 9, 1950, made McCarthy a front-page figure nationwide, generating widespread support and widespread criticism — the latter as much for his ...

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Description Wheeling, WV Historian Margaret Brennan talked about Senator Joe McCarthy's remarks at a Lincoln Day Dinner in Wheeling, WV on February 9, 1950.