Joseph Wershba, a pioneering TV journalist whose work helped discredit Sen. Joseph McCarthys witch hunt for US communists in the mid-1950s, died at 90 on May 14.
Wershba produced several 1953 and 1954 reports on McCarthy for Edward R. Murrows groundbreaking CBS news program See It Now. McCarthy had falsely accused celebrities and entertainers, including playwright Arthur Miller and Charlie Chaplin, of having communist ties.
