THE WITCH HUNT THAT FOUND REAL WITCHES

Today, 7 Feb, is the day in 1950 that Senator Joe McCarthy began what are now known as "the witch hunts".
History, as defined by the US public school system, teaches us that he was hated and vilified, that he ruined the careers of innocent men, that he had "no shame", that he was condemned by the Senate, and that he never found a single Russian spy.
History, as defined by the US public school system, is just plain wrong.
Vilified today (by the US public school system), polls during his lifetime showed that 75% of Americans supported him.
McCarthy refused to "name names" just to avoid ruining reputations; he turned the names over to the FBI, and in fact got many of them from the FBI. Forced to name a couple of names on one occasion, they proved to actually be Russian spies.
In the case in which he had "no shame" for naming a suspect individual, McCarthy was in fact reading from a newspaper that named the individual that morning, and the individual was in fact guilty.
McCarthy was in fact condemned by the Senate on a party line vote for making an insulting comment to a Democratic senator who had just made an equally insulting comment to him. That Democratic senator was not condemned.
Most important, McCarthy did in fact find dozens of real, actual, Soviet spies, although the FBI already knew about a lot of them and he was, in fact, simply noting that the FBI had found such spies, to prove the point that such spies existed. Decades later, secret Russian files and the de-classified Venona Transcripts proved, outright, that McCarthy had in fact been on the trail of more than fifty Soviet spies, all of them men that the Truman Administration appointed and defended.
So much for history as the public school system teaches it. It kind of makes you wonder why they're teaching things they know are not true.