Roy Marcus Cohn, 20 Feb 1927 - Aug 1986 Search this
Everett McKinley Dirksen, 4 Jan 1896 - 7 Sep 1969 Search this
Medium:
Gelatin silver print
Dimensions:
Image: 26.7 × 38.5 cm (10 1/2 × 15 3/16")
Sheet: 39.9 × 49.8 cm (15 11/16 × 19 5/8")
Type:
Photograph
Place:
United States\District of Columbia\Washington
Date:
1954
Exhibition Label:
Roy Cohn, chief counsel for the Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, and subcommittee member Senator Everett Dirksen were both allies of Senator McCarthy. The circumstances surrounding the confrontation captured in this photograph are unclear, but emotions often reached a fevered pitch during the high-stakes proceedings of the Army-McCarthy hearings—even among those on the same side.
After the hearings ended on June 17, 1954, and McCarthy was discredited, Dirksen tried to forge a compromise to prevent his colleague’s censure by the Senate. Those efforts failed and on December 1, 1954, the Senate voted 67 to 22 to censure the senator. The following year, Dirksen broke permanently with McCarthy over his claim that the Eisenhower Administration was soft on Communism.
Roy Cohn, abogado principal del Subcomité Permanente de Investigaciones, y el senador Everett Dirksen, miembro del subcomité, eran aliados del senador McCarthy. Las circunstancias de la confrontación que capta esta fotografía no están claras, pero los ánimos se caldearon muchas veces durante las trascendentales audiencias Ejército-McCarthy, incluso entre un mismo bando.
Al terminar las audiencias el 17 de junio de 1954 con la desacreditación de McCarthy, Dirksen trató de forjar un acuerdo para evitar que el Senado emitiera una censura contra su colega. No obstante, el 1 de diciembre de 1954 el Senado votó 67 a 22 para censurar al senador. Al año siguiente, Dirksen rompió para siempre con McCarthy por este acusar al gobierno de Eisenhower de ser blando con el comunismo.
