Tail Gunner Joe

Senator Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin accuses prominent people of Communist sympathies in order to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.

TV Movie Drama

Peter Boyle

(Joseph McCarthy)

John Forsythe

(Paul Cunningham)

Burgess Meredith

(Joseph Welch)

Patricia Neal

(Margaret Chase Smith)

Jean Stapleton

(Mrs. DeCamp)

Ned Beatty

(Sylvester)

Philip Abbott

(Scott Lucas)

Wallace Rooney

(Speaker)

Heather Menzies

(Logan)

Wesley Addy

(Middleton)

Karen Carlson

(Jean Kerr)

John Carradine

(Wisconsin Farmer)

Charles Cioffi

(Logan's Boss)

Diana Douglas

(Sarah)

Andrew Duggan

(Dwight Eisenhower)

Henry Jones

(Armitage)

Murray Matheson

(Publisher)

Allan Miller

(Pete)

Tim O'Connor

(Librarian)

Alan Oppenheimer

(Eisenhower Publicist)

Addison Powell

(General George C. Marshall)

Andrew Prine

(Peter Parker McNair Gates)

John Randolph

(Gen. Lampkin)

Allan Rich

(Ray Jenkins)

William Schallert

(Gen. Zwicker)

Simon Scott

(Robert Ten Broeck Stevens)

Robert F. Simon

(Drew Pearson)

George Wyner

(Roy Cohn)

Lin McCarthy

(Sen. Stuart Symington)

Kelly Jean Peters

(Mrs. Sarah Gates)

Robert Symonds

(President Harry Truman)

Charles Siebert

(James Juliana)

Sam Chew Jr.

(Robert F. Kennedy)

John Chappell

(Sen. Karl Mundt)

Herb Voland

(Sen. Raymond Baldwin)

Edward Anhalt

(Sen. Herbert Lehman)

Alan Hewitt

(Dean Acheson)

Howard Hesseman

(Lt. Ted Cantwell)

Jack Bannon

(Eisenhower Aide)

Charles Macaulay

(Wm. Roberts)

Richard M. Dixon

(Sen. Richard M. Nixon)

Morgan Upton

(Clucas)

Shirley O'Hara

(Marie)

George Petrie

(Chas. Kraus)