Gatefold endpages feature photographs of the hearings.
Detail of US Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Opening spread of Victor Navasky's essay, "India Ink Versus the Political Smear."
Informational asides in the essay margins provide background on the various players in the hearings.
US Senator Joseph McCarthy.
Detail of US Senator Everett Dirkson. Arline Simon notes, '"There were some senators I didn't care for but they were surely great to draw, Senator Dirkson for example."
Charles Potter of the Senate Government Operations Committee and US Senator Everett Dirkson.
Mrs. Pike, secretary to Robert T. Stevens, left, and Mary Driscoll, secretary to Joseph McCarthy, right.
Detail of Roy Cohn, chief counsel to McCarthy.
Roy Cohn, left, and Ray Jenkins, special counsel to the Senate Subcommittee, right.
Joseph Welch, chief counsel to the Army. "I still get tears in my eyes when I think of Welch's saying, 'Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?,'" notes Simon.
