Granted, I'm too young to have lived through the McCarthy era (http://grid.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/ch8_p5.htm). But I learned about it in history class. The McCarthy trials were always taught as a low point for American rights, for American freedoms. A time when friends and neighbors turned on each other and where even being thought to be a communist would ruin ones career. I would press Mr. Katz to remember the McCarthy trials, and to ask Pinkerton Corp. if they remember the McCarthy trials. And if one of the goals of studying history is to not make the same mistakes we made before.
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Granted, I'm too young to have lived through the McCarthy era (http://grid.let.rug.nl/~usa/H/1990/ch8_p5.htm). But I learned about it in history class. The McCarthy trials were always taught as a low point for American rights, for American freedoms. A time when friends and neighbors turned on each other and where even being thought to be a communist would ruin ones career. I would press Mr. Katz to remember the McCarthy trials, and to ask Pinkerton Corp. if they remember the McCarthy trials. And if one of the goals of studying history is to not make the same mistakes we made before.