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To start today's show, I will read out the list of people accused of witchcraft in a recent panel report.

You are hereby ordered not to associate with these people. They are enemies of the American

state. You should not employ these people, nor house them, nor should you socialize with them.

Certainly do not socialize. Everyone understands the severe consequences that come with any

connection to a witch. They corrupt the innocent heart. They bring down those who

believe in them. They cast aside those who don't first turn on themselves. Well that's not really

going to happen today. I have no such list, no such report. This is a podcast. But back in the 1950s, here in the United States, there are a lot of such reports and a lot of such lists.

And those who found themselves on them may not have been called witches,

but they might have been called something even worse. Thank you're

here. On today's episode, we discuss the red scare of the early

early 1950s, often referred to as the McCarthy era.

McCarthyism, even.

In which a senator from the state of Wisconsin made his name launching a dogged campaign

to out individuals in the federal government, State

Department in particular, for their allegiance to or affiliations with the Communist Movement.

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