In 1937, the National Basketball League (NBL) was created by three corporations: General Electric, Firestone and Goodyear. Most of the teams in the league played

The first TV hockey broadcasts occurred in the late 1940s in New York and Detroit. At the time, CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Company) was the only

The primary sources of news before the Fifties were the radio, newspapers and magazines. To actually “see” an event, people relied on MOVIETONE NEWS, which

The United States Senate conducted hearings in 1951 by Senator Estes Kefauver’s Crime Investigating Committee. The Kefauver Committee held hearings in 14 major cities, such

Richard Nixon was a Republican member of the House of Representatives since the mid-1940s. General Eisenhower, the 1952 Republican nominee for the presidency, picked Nixon

(For a more detailed discussion of Senator Joe McCarthy, McCarthyism and Red Hunting see relevant section of the main Songbook.) The late Forties to mid-Fifties

In 1953, McCarthy began inquiries into the United States Army for suspected Communist infiltration of the Army Signal Corps laboratory at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

President Truman and General MacArthur got into a dispute regarding how to conduct the Korean War. Truman was the Commander-in-Chief over the armed forces and

In 1948, the major television networks televised both the Democratic and Republican presidential conventions on the few television stations on the air. Both political parties