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The Tydings Panel was a lynch mob.

You may already know a this about Senator Tydings, but others might get a rueful chuckle. In the book, Blacklisted By History (M.Stanton Evans) p244.there is a photograph of handsome Senator Tydings. He is posing with a phonograph and record. Tydings told the Senate he could prove McCarthy lied at his Wheeling West Virginia speech about the number of Communists. The press reported Tydings had been prevented from playing the recording. Tydings said "they will hear the Senator's own voice." This previously.

Tydings was later questioned by McCarthy's attorney. He admitted there was no such recording. I believe one Dan Rather too, was a little lax in matters of important journalistic integrity.

I knew from my long held interest in Soviet cold war espionage, and things like Venona that McCarthy had received a bad rap, but I didn't realize the extent of the politically motivated savaging of him until I read Ann Coulters material and then the M. Stanton Evans Book. I very much recommend "Blacklisted by History" to anyone who has any interest in the matter.

What really amazed me was the fact that when the committe brought comtempt proceedings against former Communist Party boss Earl Browder, who was then hauled before a court facing prison time. "Browder brought only one witness to the stand to defend him against the Tydings contempt citation. That single witness was Joe McCarthy." (Pages 217-218). Some paranoid red-baiting inquisitor huh?