US Senate Investigative Subcommittee hearings on opposing accusations from the US Army and Senator Joseph McCarthy

Title card: "The McCarthy-Army Hearing" / Senate Investigative Subcommittee hearings on whether Roy Cohn pressured the army to give preferential treatment to Private David Schine and Sen. Joseph McCarthy accusing the army of retaliation for his investigation into Communism in the army / Pan crowd in Capitol rotunda waiting for hearings to begin / stepped rows of cameramen and movie cameras / CU US Asst Defense Secy Struve Hensel / MS Army Secy Robert Stevens and other military officers walking into hearing chamber / High angle MS McCarthy, chairman of the US Senate Government Operations Committee, taking seat at table in hearing chamber / CU McCarthy and Roy Cohn, chief counsel of the US Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, seated in chamber / Pan right to Francis Carr, Executive Director of McCarthy's committee staff / CU Schine standing at attention with other soldiers on army base / side view photographers taking photos on army base / CU Schine at attention / High angle MS men at table in chamber / Pan right to Gen. Miles Reber, commander of US Army's western area in Europe, approaching witness chair / MS Stevens (glasses) and others at table / CU Reber testifying / High Angle MS Cohn, McCarthy, and Carr at table / High angle Pan hearing chamber / High angle VS Walter Smith, US Secretary of State, sits down on witness chair / High angle VS Stevens sits down at witness chair, SOT "the Schine case is only an example of the wrongful seeking of privilege of the perversion of power. It has been a distraction that has kept many men from the performance of tasks far more for the welfare of this country than the convenience of a single army private." / High angle MS hearing / High angle MS hearing breaks up / Note: exact day not known