July 10, 2015
Los Angeles, California
File in the WHO KNEW catagory.
One of my all time favorite classic films is ANATOMY OF A MURDER starring James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara and George C. Scott. I’ve probably watched it a dozen or so times through the years. One of my favorite actors in the film was the man who played the eccentric, “Judge Weaver” Didn’t know his name until I looked him up last week. Judge Weaver was played by actor, JOSEPH NYE WELCH.
Turns out “Judge Weaver” was a real life attorney and counsel for the Army during the 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings.
Here’s Joseph Welch’s famous response to Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army-McCarthy hearings:
“Fred Fisher is a young man who is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us.
Little did I dream that you could be so reckless, and so cruel, as to do an injury to that lad.
Have you no sense of decency, sir; at long last, have you left no sense of decency?”
(I’M A BIG FAN OF THE DEMAGOGUE BITCH-SLAP, AND WELCH’S TO MCCARTHY IN ’54 IS ONE OF THE BEST.)
Click to view the video of Joseph Welch’s famous indictment of Joseph McCarthy at Army Congressional Hearing in June, 1954
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