Radio Superior looks at McCarthy

U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy accuses the Truman Administration of harboring communists and communist sympathizers in the State Department in two episodes to air tonight on KUWS, 91.3 FM.

Hosts Jack McKenna and Ray Paulsen and news anchorman Lew Martin recreate April 5 and 6, 1950, including advertising and music of that time in these half hour episodes. Joined by local actors Tom Martinson, Donn Hanson, Jennifer Simonson and Al Katz, “Radio Superior” also has fun with cabin fever and gives ideas about a 1950s Easter egg hunt.

“Radio Superior” uses stories from specific dates in the Superior Evening Telegram in this locally produced program. It airs every Friday at 5:30 p.m. on Wisconsin Public Radio.

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