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Evjue and Capital Times Staff
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William T. Evjue (seated on the desk), editor and publisher of the Madison Capital Times, with members of his staff. Evjue was well-known for his journalistic crusades, perhaps most notable being his opposition to Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. Even before McCarthy became a national figure after his February 1950 speech at Wheeling, West Virginia, the Capital Times experienced one of the senator's anti-communist attacks. McCarthy charged that city editor Cedric Parker was a Communist and that the Capital Times was the Communist Party mouthpiece in Wisconsin. Identified newspapermen in this photograph taken at the Capital Times office are John Sammis and Frank Custer (on the left) and Havens Wilbur and Harry D. Sage to Evjue's left.
1949
Miller, James Roy, Capital Times
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William T. Evjue
April 26, 1950
William T. Evjue, editor and publisher of the Madison "Capital Times," who was well-known for his "crusades" such as his opposition to gambling, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, and Congressman Alvin O'...
William T. Evjue in Court
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W.T. Evjue, editor of the Capital Times, pleading not guilty in Superior Court, charged for publishing the name of a 19-year-old rape victim. To the left is W. Wade Boardman, Evjue's attorney, to t...
Where's Joe?
August 3, 1952
Leonard Schmitt, independent Republican candidate for the United States Senate, holding a copy of The McCarthy Record and pointing to an empty chair with a sign showing the seat reserved for his op...
Governor Kohler and Foreign Dignitaries
June 1955
Governor Walter J. Kohler, Jr., meeting with a delegation of Latin American newspapermen in his office at the Wisconsin State Capitol.
Evjue Presented wth High Norway Honor
February 12, 1959
William T. Evjue, editor and publisher of the Capital Times (left), shown after receiving the Knight's Cross, First Class, Royal Order of St. Olav, from Norwegian Counsul Helge Akre (right) on beha...
Candidate Fairchild Votes
November 4, 1952
Thomas Fairchild casts his vote in the 1952 general election. Fairchild lost his bid for the U.S. Senate seat held by Joseph R. McCarthy. With him are his son Andy and Mrs. Fairchild.
