In the spring of 1954, Senator McCarthy set his sights on a new target: the United States Army, alleging Communist infiltration of the Army Signal Corps lab at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey - the same lab where Julius Rosenberg had once worked. The hearings, which were televised on ABC and NBC and watched by an estimated 80 million people, unveiled to the nation the true cost of McCarthy’s anti-Communist crusade. Had the senator from Wisconsin finally gone too far?
