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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people."
Cesar Chavez
:: Monday, May 05, 2003 ::
The Red Scare revisited: inside McCarthy files Long-sealed transcripts of the Joseph McCarthy hearings, released on Monday, amplify much of what is already known about the most notorious investigation in congressional history: how witnesses were badgered - and lives ruined - by charges of communist subversion that proved to be largely groundless.