McCarthy and Cohn - The Death Knell for McCarthyism

Army special counsel Joseph Welch was taking part in the hearings. He had hired a young lawyer that McCarthy and Cohn were badgering. Welch told them, until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty or recklessness. The army put together a dossier on Roy Cohn which listed all of the ways he had threatened and intimidated witnesses to get his boyfriend light duty and better assignments. In early December, 1954, the Senate passed a motion of condemnation in a vote of 67 to 62.