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EDMUND VALTMAN, Hartford Times
In 1954, as the Army-McCarthy hearings exposed the Wisconsin senator's bullying tactics on national television, Joseph McCarthy's reputation plummeted. Estonian émigré, Edmund Valtman, who had lived through German fascism and Soviet communism, believed the Republican Party needed to purge the red scare obsession from its agenda. Already an established cartoonist, Valtman emigrated to the United States in 1949 and worked for the Hartford Times between 1951 and his retirement in 1975. |