[Robert A Cook PE]

And when and who did the cartoonist get his "inspiration" from? (Wouldn't you have to establish that Red Square sent its' "public" warning after the cartoon ?)

[Your Nightmare]

And when and who did the cartoonist get his "inspiration" from? (Wouldn't you have to establish that Red Square sent its' "public" warning after the cartoon ?)

What "public warning"?

Herb Block was interviewed by Brian Lamb on 14th November, 1993.

Brian Lamb: Here's a cartoon from the year 1950 -- The headline on it is, "You mean I'm supposed to stand on that?" And right up here is the word "McCarthyism." Did you invent that?

Herb Block: That's the first use of that word that I know of and I remember how it originated because I wanted to put something on that tar barrel and you couldn't call it McCarthy himself, and you wouldn't say McCarthy techniques or so on and I thought, "Well, maybe just use one word, McCarthyism," and, you know, it caught on.