research paper source 1

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/episodes/arthur-miller/mccarthyism/484/

This is one of the sources that I plan to use for my research paper. The article, from PBS, provides a brief history about the reasons why McCarthyism became so widespread in the USA from about 1936. this source will help me write my research essay because the McCarthy movement was a very melodramatic way of forcing people to confess to supporting communism. this movement relates to The Blacklist because, in the show, Raymond Reddington plays a part similar to that of Joseph McCarthy; accusing people of heinous crimes; people would otherwise never be convicted of any crime. in this set up, the FBI are like McCarthy's followers, the ones that he "recruits" to find the people on his "blacklist". this is all melodramatic because in both examples, people blindly follow the one person who claims to know all of these things, but has no evidence of his accusations.