Fact #93126

The Army-McCarthy hearings, a congressional inquiry into alleged security lapses in the US Army, are broadcast live for the first time on tv from The Senate In Washington, DC, USA, on the ABC and DuMont networks. The hearings will be broadcast for 36 days to an estimated 80m people. The topical song Senator McCarthy Blues by Hal Block with the Tony Borrello Orchestra reveals the extent to which the hearings had a grip on the public imagination. At least two other songs, Point of Order by Stan Freberg and Daws Butler, and Joe McCarthy's Band by Joe Glazer, are also responses to the McCarthy-Army conflict.