JOSEPH N. WELCH

Joseph N. Welch was the chief counsel for the United States Army while it was under investigation for Communist activities by Senator Joseph McCarthy's Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, an investigation known as the Army-McCarthy hearings. His confrontation with McCarthy during the hearings, in which he famously asked McCarthy "At long last, have you left no sense of decency?" is seen as a turning point in the history of McCarthyism. He later played a judge in Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder, and narrated the television shows Omnibus and Dow Hour of Great Mysteries. He passed away in 1960 at the age of 69.