>Can listmembers advise what documentaries or fiction-films work well in
>introductory college communications classes in presenting the basic facts about
>the McCarthy era to college students who have hardly heard of it?
>--Keith Nightenhelser   [log in to unmask]
 
You should also look into the many docs on CBS news/god Edward R. Murrow.
He pretty much discredited McCarthy on his news/mag show "See It Now,"
which led to McC's downfall.  I seem to remember a TV movie on Murrow with
Daniel J. Travanti.
 
 
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