Red Scare: Quick Facts

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Front page of The New Majority newspaper from January 10, 1920, with large headline reading Terrorism and a political cartoon showing a tombstone inscribed with free speech, free press, peaceful assemblage.

A. Mitchell Palmer

Joseph McCarthy

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Key People

Roy Cohn

Roy Cohn

American lawyer

Joseph McCarthy

Joseph McCarthy

United States senator

A. Mitchell Palmer

A. Mitchell Palmer

American lawyer and politician