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Point of Order

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Point of Order	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Point of Order is a 1964 film directed by Emile de Antonio. It is a documentary about the dramatic Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954.United States Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisconsin), once an obscure junior member of the body, had spent the previous four years making himself famous by fanning the flames of the Red Scare, hurling wild, unsubstantiated accusations of Communist infiltration of various organs of the United States government. By 1953 he'd begun investigating the U.S. Army, which hit back by accusing McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, of attempting to obtain special favors for one G. David Schine, a former McCarthy staffer and close friend of Cohn's who had gotten drafted into the Army.McCarthy's own subcommittee met to investigate the various charges. The hearings, which lasted over a month, were broadcast live on national television. This film consists in its entirety of clips from the hearings, with McCarthy and his enemies on the committee—most notably Stuart Symington (D-Missouri)—flinging accusations back and forth. Things get nastier and nastier as McCarthy gets more personal, while Joseph Welch, special counsel for the Army, delivers a ringing condemnation of the senator.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })
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Point of Order / int_66ef1fa1	comment	Hauled Before A Senate Subcommittee: Congressional investigative committees were at least a century old by this point, but the Army-McCarthy hearings, a month-long drama on national television, were the Trope Maker in the public consciousness. This one was a peculiar example in that Joe McCarthy was both on the committee and a target of the committee; at one point he leaves his spot on the committee table to testify under oath.
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Point of Order / int_6a1a1f8a	comment	Glasses Pull: Joseph Welch does this as he gets wound up during the "have you no decency" speech.
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Point of Order / int_71abd546	comment	Excited Show Title!: The film was called Point of Order! when it was released on DVD in 2005 but was originally titled Point of Order without the exclamation point.
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