“Common knowledge has it that the Red Scare involved Joseph McCarthy, HUAC, and Cold War highlights. While all of this is true, that’s the second Red Scare of the 1960’s. “
Not the 1960s. 1948 to late 1950s. Investigation of communists under the House Un-American Activities Committee [HUAC] started many years before Senator McCarthy got going, but the whole era has been retroactively tagged with the label “McCarthyism”.
Corrected. Thank you.