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**Note: Due to technical difficulties, there were issues affecting Jamie's audio quality this week. We apologize and promise it will be fixed on our next episode.**

This week we're traveling back to 1950s America with Good Night, and Good Luck! Join us as we learn about Red Scare-Era figurse like Annie Lee Moss, Joe and Shirley Wershba, Milo Radulovich, Don Hollenbeck, and more!

Sources:

Loren Ghiglione, Why Don Hollenbeck Fascinated Me Enough to Write His Biography. History News Network. Available at https://www.historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-don-hollenbeck-fascinated-me-enough-to-write-h
Loren Ghiglione, Don Hollenbeck: An Honest Reporter in the Age of McCarthyism. New York: Columbian University Press
CBS News: February 2nd 1951: https://youtu.be/F8DsMDzUpe4?si=2GNdaXsGlyIStfwI
Interview with Loren Ghiglione: https://cupblog.org/2008/10/03/interview-with-loren-ghiglione-author-of-cbss-don-hollenbeck/

https://www.michbar.org/programs/milestone/milestones_miloradulovich
"Joseph Wershba on the Milo Radulovich Story" https://youtu.be/MEBNxrIT8r0?si=EqheG_CZKDzzDvQP 
https://findingaids.lib.umich.edu/catalog/umich-bhl-2008173 
"The Wisconsin Magazine; 1329; Joe McCarty," 1987-05-08, PBS Wisconsin, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed February 27, 2026, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-29-42n5tgg7
Martin, Douglas, "OBITUARIES: MILO RADULOVICH, 81, DIES; SYMBOL OF '50S RED SCARE." New York Times (November 21, 2007), 1.
THE RADULOVICH CASE. 1953. New York Times (1923-);30.
ELAINE WOO "M. Radulovich, 81; airman's case played key role in helping to end McCarthy era." Los Angeles Times (2007);1.
Holley J. "Milo radulovich; cast out of air force, he put face on 'ravages of McCarthyism'." The Washington Post (2007);1.

Matthew Wills, "How Annie Lee Moss Survived McCarthyism," JSTOR Daily, https://daily.jstor.org/how-annie-lee-moss-survived-mccarthyism/ 
"Mrs. Moss is Sorry," NY Times (1957), https://nyti.ms/4kXSwf3 
Andrea Friedman, "The Strange Career of Annie Lee Moss: Rethinking Race, Gender, and McCarthyism," JAH 94:2 (2007): 445-68. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25094960 

Joseph Wershba, Remembered. WNYC Studios, available at https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/140064-joseph-wershba-remembered?tab=transcript

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Night,_and_Good_Luck
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/good-night-and-good-luck-2005