First Session of the Senate Censure Committee

(Original Caption) The Senate Censure Committee meets for its first session to consider charges brought by his fellow senators against Joseph R. McCarthy (R-WI). Although photographers will not be permitted to work while the hearings are in progress, they were allowed to take this picture before the session began. Senator McCarthy and his attorney, Edward B. Williams sit at the witness table (left). At the committee table in the background are (left to right): Senator Sam Ervin (D-NC); Sen. Francis Case (R-SD); Guy G. DeFuria, assistant counsel; E. Wallace Chadwick, committee counsel; Sen. Arthur Watkins (R-UT), chairman; Sen. John Stennis (D-MS); and Sen. Frank Carlson (R-KS). The other committee member Sen. Edwin Johnson (D-CO) had not yet arrived.