In A Conspiracy So Immense, Oshinsky states that McCarthy chose Marquette University rather than the University of Wisconsin–Madison partially because Marquette was under Catholic control and partially because he enrolled during the Great Depression, when few working-class or farm-bred students had the money to go out of state for college. See Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: Free Press, 2005, p. 11. ISBN 0-19-515424-X.
Oshinsky explains this (p. 17) as resulting partially from the financial pressures of the Great Depression. He also notes (p. 28) that even during his judgeship, McCarthy was known to have gambled heavily after hours. Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. New York: Free Press, 2005, p. 17, 28. ISBN 0-19-515424-X.
Oshinsky describes the nickname "Tail-Gunner Joe" as the result of McCarthy's wish to break the record for most live ammunition discharged in a single mission.Oshinsky, David M. A Conspiracy So Immense: The World of Joe McCarthy. Oxford University Press, 2005, p. 32. ISBN 0-19-515424-X.
Phillips, Steve. «5». A: Martin Collier, Erica Lewis. The Cold War. Oxford: Heinemann Educational Publishers, 2001, p. 65 (Heinemann Advanced History). ISBN 0-435-32736-4.
Joseph Wershba «Murrow vs. McCarthy». , 04-03-1979. «CBS said it was the greatest spontaneous response in the history of broadcasting: 12,348 telephone calls and telegrams in the first few hours ... 11,567 of these supported Murrow.»
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Asimov, Issac; Bradbury, Ray; Campbell, John W. «Ticket to the Moon (tribute to SciFi)» (mp3). Biography in Sound. NBC Radio News, 04-12-1956. Arxivat de l'original el February 9, 2021. [Consulta: 2 febrer 2017]. «I wrote this book at a time when I was worried about the way things were going in this country four years ago. Too many people were afraid of their shadows; there was a threat of book burning. Many of the books were being taken off the shelves at that time.»
