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Red-addled brain behind the Scripps-Howard smear of Joseph McCarthy.

The Red-Addled Brain Behind the Scripps-Howard Smear of Joseph McCarthy, Hoover Pamphlet, E748.M143 K36 1954

Staff Person: Maury York

Description:

This pamphlet by Joseph P. Kamp denounces efforts by Frederick Woltman of Scripps-Howard newspapers to “destroy” anti-communist leader Joseph McCarthy. According to Kamp, “Red Fred” Woltman “stabbed Joe McCarthy in the back . . . in the pages of the Scripps-Howard newspapers . . . Just how much the cause of communism will be helped . . . by this foul betrayal will depend on how well the public comes to know and understand . . . the treachery of this modern Judas.”

This and many other pro- and anti-communist tracts are available in the Hoover Collection on International Communism. The call number for this pamphlet is E748.M143 K36 1954.

Posted by Maury York under J. Edgar Hoover Collection on International Communism, pamphlets and Tags: communism, politics