Among Senator Joseph McCarthy’s moments in the spotlight during his anti-communist campaign, the nationally televised thirty-six-day hearing in 1954 stands out. This cartoon was published during the hearings. As McCarthy charged U.S. Army and civilian officials with subversion, television exposed his hectoring and brutal interrogation techniques, which helped turn public opinion against him. Mortified by his increasingly reckless attacks on officials that included President Dwight D. Eisenhower and political leaders of both parties, on December 2, 1954, the Senate voted to censure McCarthy.