Point of Order (film)


Point of Order is a 1964 documentary film by Emile de Antonio, about the Senate ArmyMcCarthy Hearings of 1954.

The film uses selections from the hearings to show the overall development of the trial, beginning with introductions from several main participants, such as Joseph N. Welch and Joseph McCarthy. Each participant is shown in a still image with a brief audio recording, except for McCarthy, who is introduced with longer footage of a speech he made during the hearings.In a sequence titled Charge and Countercharge, Senator Stuart Symington summarizes the principle charge and countercharge of the case. This sequence includes questioning of Roy Cohn for allegedly threatening to wreck the army if David Schine were not made a general, a statement Cohn denies. The film follows with a scene in which the Army counsel questions the origin of a photograph of that shows Schine in a meeting with Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens the photograph is shown to be cropped to suggest a closer relationship between Schine and Stevens, but McCarthys counsel denies any knowledge of photographic alteration. ........

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