The Army-McCarthy Hearings were a series of hearings held by the United States Senate\"s Subcommittee on Investigations between March 1954 and June 1954. The hearings were held for the purpose of investigating conflicting accusations between the U.S. Army and Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. The Army accused McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, of pressuring the Army to give preferential treatment to G. David Schine, who was a former McCarthy aide and a friend of Cohn\"s. McCarthy counter-charged that this accusation was made in bad faith, in retaliation for his recent aggressive investigations of suspected Communists and security risks in the Army.

Chaired by Senator Karl Mundt, the hearings were convened on March 16, 1954, with witnesses appearing from April 22, 1954 until June 17, 1954. The hearings received considerable press coverage, including live television broadcasts, and are widely believed to have contributed to McCarthy\"s decline in popularity.



Following World War II, concern over the increasing power of the Soviet Union and other Communist states led to investigations about the influence that Communist organizations had on the United States. The convictions of Alger Hiss and Julius and Ethel Rosenberg led some to believe that there were Communist infiltrators still operating in the government.