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In the spring of 1950, Wherry joined Senator [[Lister Hill]], a progressive Democrat from [[Alabama]], in a congressional investigation of [[homosexual]]s in government, particularly the [[United States Department of State]]. Wherry argued that "only the most naïve could believe that the communists' [[fifth column]] in the United States would neglect to propagate and use homosexuals to gain their treacherous ends."<ref>{{cite web|author=Judith Adkins|title= 'These People Are Frightened to Death': Congressional Investigations and the Lavender Scare|year=2016 |volume= 48 |number=2|journal= Prologue|publisher=National Archives|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/summer/lavender.html |ref=none}}</ref>

In the spring of 1950, Wherry joined Senator [[Lister Hill]], a progressive Democrat from [[Alabama]], in a congressional investigation of [[homosexual]]s in government, particularly the [[United States Department of State]]. Wherry argued that "only the most naïve could believe that the communists' [[fifth column]] in the United States would neglect to propagate and use homosexuals to gain their treacherous ends."<ref>{{cite web|author=Judith Adkins|title= 'These People Are Frightened to Death': Congressional Investigations and the Lavender Scare|year=2016 |volume= 48 |number=2|journal= Prologue|publisher=National Archives|url=https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2016/summer/lavender.html |ref=none}}</ref>

Wherry was part of a group of lawmakers and journalists who toured the [[Buchenwald]] concentration camp, which American forces had liberated on April 11, 1945, after the deaths of more than 56,000 people.T General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] left rotting corpses on the ground so that the visiting party could grasp the extent of the atrocities.<ref>Marvin E. Stromer,  "The Making of a Political Leader: Kenneth S. Wherry and the United States Senate," (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969) p. 136–137.

Wherry was part of a group of lawmakers and journalists who toured the [[Buchenwald]] concentration camp, which American forces had liberated on April 11, 1945, after the deaths of more than 56,000 people.T General [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]] left rotting corpses on the ground so that the visiting party could grasp the extent of the atrocities.<ref>Marvin E. Stromer,  "The Making of a Political Leader: Kenneth S. Wherry and the United States Senate," (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1969) p. 136–137.</ref>

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