Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist crusade collapsed when he conducted televised hearings to investigate communist influence in the American Red Cross.

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Senator Joseph McCarthy's anticommunist crusade collapsed after he conducted televised hearings to investigate alleged communist infiltration of the United States Army, not the American Red Cross. These hearings, known as the Army-McCarthy hearings in 1954, exposed McCarthy's tactics to the public and led to his censure by the Senate.

Senator Joseph McCarthy's Anticommunist Crusade Collapsed When He Conducted Televised