Word: jenkinses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The long-awaited event was an anticlimax. By the time Joe McCarthy raised a broad right hand and took the witness' oath at midweek, the suspicions, facts, hunches, charges and countercharges had been so well chewed over in seven weeks of hearings that not a morsel of fresh meat...
Counsel Ray Jenkins: Do you recall that Mr. Stevens . . . swore under his oath . . . that you asked him to assign Dave Schine to the New York area . .?
Jenkins: Did you or did you not make such a request of the Secretary . . .? McCarthy: No.
McCarthy insisted that neither he nor his staff-including Roy Cohn-had used pressure to get Schine a special assignment. Why, then, asked Jenkins, had McCarthy cautioned the Army not to give Schine special treatment? Said Joe: the Army itself had, "on some instances," brought the Schine matter up. Another...
Since the day Ray Jenkins first flashed onto the nation's television screens as committee counsel in the Army-McCarthy hearings, his home state of Tennessee has buzzed with talk about his political future. Would the Knoxville lawyer turn out to be a good candidate to run for the...