Which statement by attorney Joseph Welch during a 1954 televised Senate hearing became a famous rebuke of Senator McCarthy?
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Correct answer: Have you no sense of decency?
Joseph Welch asked McCarthy, 'Have you no sense of decency?' during the televised hearings. The moment became a powerful symbol of growing opposition to McCarthy's methods.
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