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Tail Gunner Joe is a 1977 television movie dramatizing the life of U.S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican who claimed knowledge of communist infiltration of the U.S. government during the 1950s. The film was broadcast on NBC.
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He volunteered to fly twelve combat missions as a gunner-observer. These missions were generally safe, and after one where he was allowed to shoot as much ammunition as he wanted to, mainly at coconut trees, he acquired the nickname "Tail-Gunner Joe".
Mar 17, 2020 · How did a circuit judge become a war hero and a senator? Learn about the truth and lies behind McCarthy's military record and his rise to fame.
Jul 7, 2020 · How the notorious senator and Red-baiter spent his final days in a downward spiral of alcoholism, illness and isolation. Read eyewitness accounts of his last conversations, hospitalization and funeral.
- Nancy Tappan
Jul 27, 2020 · McCarthy had been elected senator from Wisconsin in 1946, after switching his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican and running as a decorated Marine veteran with the nickname Tail Gunner...
- Louis Menand
Jul 19, 2020 · They made fun of the moniker he gave himself, Tail Gunner Joe. It turns out, from the handwritten notes in the files and from his comrades in the Marines, that he volunteered for dangerous...
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Oct 23, 2019 · Learn about the life and career of Joseph McCarthy, the controversial U.S. Senator who led the anti-communist crusade in the 1950s. Find out why he was called Tail-Gunner Joe and how he used his power and influence to accuse and intimidate.
