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- ↑ West Virginia Archive & History, West Virginia Division of Culture and History, February 9, 1950: U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy launches his anti-communism crusade in Wheeling, Time Trail West Virginia, via WVCulture.org.
- ↑ "Calendar for Santa Maria". Santa Maria Sun. July 4, 2006. Archived from the original on 2004-12-16 – via Google cache of SantaMariaSun.com.
- ↑ Geoffrey Stone, Supreme Court Tales From the Pleading Side of the Bench (book review), The New York Times, April 16, 2005, via Law.UChicago.edu.
- ↑ Edward Mason, Shining a spotlight into darkness