Desc: McCarthy: Death of a Witch Hunter: Directed by Emile de Antonio. With Paul Newman, Roy M. Cohn, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Mamie Eisenhower. Documentary of the U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy, who rose to prominence in the early 1950s by trumpeting allegations of a vast conspiracy by alleged Communist agents whom he claimed had infiltrated the U.S. government, media, film industry, labor unions and other organizations.