ethel burch gave welch material that she had been collecting for her own biography of her son. welch wrote a short biography of welch, there no footnotes, no documentation, it is a frustrating book. welch called him at a heroic young patriot who recognize the dangers of long before the others. it's actually he said that death of burch was a deliberate and unjustified killing. claim that burch had sacrificed his life as a warning to others about the intentions of the communists. so with enthusiastic permission of parents, welch established the john birch society in 1958, as mentioned, as mentioned it became one of the most influential and controversial organizations of its time, its platform was anti- communism and anti- big government. welch had decided that john burch was the ideal symbol for his new movement founded in late 1958, he did so for three reasons, one is that burch represented the mind of robert welsh the epitome of american values, he had been a missionary, military officer, military officer, and helped to rescue jimmy doolittle. he was described by noland and wel