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Reporter's Notebook: A 1954 plea and the fading power of public shame

In 1954, one question -- "Have you no sense of decency?" -- cut through cruelty and stopped McCarthyism in its tracks. Today, the same words might not land at all. "CBS Evening News" co-anchor John Dickerson explains.
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